I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
ORSON WELLESNobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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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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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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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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 prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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