The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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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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