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" Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. "
Orson Welles
Me
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" When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. "
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" I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. "
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" I have no great message to the world. "
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" I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind. "
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" Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. "
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" I have an unfortunate personality. "
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" 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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" If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm. "
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" There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. "
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" When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't. "
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" At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. "
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" 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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" One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable. "
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" A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. "
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Head
" I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. "
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Always
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" The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. "
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" Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! "
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" Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. "
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" 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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" If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. "
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" I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. "
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" If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking. "
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