I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
ORSON WELLESRace hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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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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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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