Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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 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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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