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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

Orson Welles

Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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Hate Learning Myself Woman
I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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Drive Fast Myself Scare
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

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