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" Gluttony is not a secret vice. "
Orson Welles
Gluttony
Secret
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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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" Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. "
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" Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. "
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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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" 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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" In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night. "
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" As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless. "
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" I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me. "
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" Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. "
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" Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited. "
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" Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. "
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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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I Am
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" I have an unfortunate personality. "
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" I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. "
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