I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
ORSON WELLESI 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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See, 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.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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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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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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 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 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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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 can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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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 cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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