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.
ORSON WELLESA bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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 do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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