Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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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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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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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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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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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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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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