A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
ORSON WELLESThe classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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 seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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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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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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