Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
ORSON WELLESCrooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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 director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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 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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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