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" I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. "
Orson Welles
Commercial
Hobby
Person
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" On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!' "
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Never
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" There were centuries when civilization had no theater. "
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" Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. "
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" Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. "
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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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Reality
Process
" 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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Always
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" The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. "
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Middle
Society
" 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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American
Television
" I started at the top and worked my way down. "
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Down
Started
" Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. "
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Them
Look
Like
" 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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People
Mind
Know
" 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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Faster
More
Miles
" In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. "
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Never
Your
America
" Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. "
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You
Lunch
Country
" Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. "
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Like
Colonists
Very
" 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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Child
Know
Me
" My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. "
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People
Stop
Doctor
" Gluttony is not a secret vice. "
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Gluttony
Secret
Vice
" I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.' "
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Her
Love
Woman
" If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. "
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Ending
You
Story
" A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. "
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Eye
Good
Head
" The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. "
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Successful
Most
Worst
" I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. "
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Accomplishment
Always
Experiment
" I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. "
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Audience
Too Much
Want
" If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them. "
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Looks
Somebody
Like
" Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. "
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Order
Now
Recognize
" 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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People
Short
True
" I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. "
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Pretty
Protect
Feel
" When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. "
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Friends
Your
You