My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
ORSON WELLESI started at the top and worked my way down.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to 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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