Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLES
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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