I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
ORSON WELLESWe’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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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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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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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 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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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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