A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
ORSON WELLESThe classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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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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