A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

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Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?

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You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but the...

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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later

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Johnny Clay: You like money. You got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart. So play it smart. Stay in character and you'...

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No more picking on Dim, brother. That's part of the new way.

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Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble.

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There are some things, my dear Fisher, which do not bear much looking into. You undoubtedly have heard of the Siberian goat herder who tried t...

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Geroge Peatty: I'm gonna have it, Sherry. Hundreds of thousands, maybe a half million. Sherry Peatty: Of course you are, darling. Did you...

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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

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I keep seeing lousy films and saying to myself, 'I don't know anything about movie making, but I couldn't do any worse than this'.

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You like money. You got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart.

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It's a bad joke without a punchline.

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People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe

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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

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Your money's no good here. Orders of the house.

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George Peatty: Tell me something, wouldya Sherry? Just tell me one thing. Why did you ever marry me anyway? Sherry Peatty: Oh, George. Wh...

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