A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
ORSON WELLESI have an unfortunate personality.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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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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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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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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