Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
ORSON WELLESA film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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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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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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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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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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