I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
ORSON WELLESAt twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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