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.
ORSON WELLESA bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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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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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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 don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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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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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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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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