The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
ORSON WELLESI started at the top and worked my way down.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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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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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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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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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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