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.
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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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 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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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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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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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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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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