Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLESOnly in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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’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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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