I started at the top and worked my way down.
ORSON WELLESI don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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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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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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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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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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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 love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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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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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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