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.
ORSON WELLESWhat’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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 classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Now 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.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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’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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