The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
ORSON WELLESPersonally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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