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 WELLESPersonally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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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’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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