I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
ORSON WELLESOnly in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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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 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.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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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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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 kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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