If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
ORSON WELLESA director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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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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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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 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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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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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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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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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 have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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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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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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