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.
ORSON WELLESI love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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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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