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.
ORSON WELLESNow I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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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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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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 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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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