A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
ORSON WELLESI don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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 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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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