If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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 kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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’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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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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