If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
ORSON WELLESSee, 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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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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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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