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.
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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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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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 who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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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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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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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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