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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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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 have an unfortunate personality.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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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 do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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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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Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
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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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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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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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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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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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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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I have no great message to the world.
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