I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
ORSON WELLESA writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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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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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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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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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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