A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
ORSON WELLESWorking is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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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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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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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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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’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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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