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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

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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
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
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality

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