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 WELLESDon’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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 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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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.
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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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 started at the top and worked my way down.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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