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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

Orson Welles

Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
ORSON WELLES

Creation Identity Style Unique Visual Yourself
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.
ORSON WELLES

Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
ORSON WELLES

Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
ORSON WELLES

Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
ORSON WELLES

Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
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.
ORSON WELLES

Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLES

Hate Kind Man Myself
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
ORSON WELLES

Big Modesty Tough
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
ORSON WELLES

Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
ORSON WELLES

Director Kind Myself Writing
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
ORSON WELLES

Ourselves Silence Sing Song
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
ORSON WELLES

Artist Himself Time
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 WELLES

Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship Woman
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.
ORSON WELLES

Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
ORSON WELLES

Man Movie Production Train
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
ORSON WELLES

Choice Greatness Hate Love Myself People Respect

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