Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLESThere are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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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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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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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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 director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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