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" Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. "
Orson Welles
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" I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it. "
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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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" Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. "
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" The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow. "
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" 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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" I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. "
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" I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately. "
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" 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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" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "
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" I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. "
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" I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. "
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