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.
ORSON WELLESNobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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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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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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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 passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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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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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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