The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
ORSON WELLESThe director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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