I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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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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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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