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.
ORSON WELLESThe cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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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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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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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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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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