I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
ORSON WELLESWhen you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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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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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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