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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

If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship 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 most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People

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