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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.

Orson Welles

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
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Army Artist Movie Need Pen Writing
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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
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
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
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
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’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision

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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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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