I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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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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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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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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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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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