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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

Orson Welles

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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Ego Movie Myself Understand
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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Expression Life Myself Philosophy Work
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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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time
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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Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
I have an unfortunate personality.
ORSON WELLES

One Liner Personality Unfortunate
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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Life Live Money Myself Run Try
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLES

Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
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!
ORSON WELLES

Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
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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Hate Learning Myself Woman
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet

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