If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
ORSON WELLESI’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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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