The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
ORSON WELLESOld age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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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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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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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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