I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
ORSON WELLESWe’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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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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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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