There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
ORSON WELLESRace hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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