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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.

Orson Welles

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Dependent Election Fame Politics Popular
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Art Best Interview Myself
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 seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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Ego Movie Myself Understand
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police

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