Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
ORSON WELLESIf you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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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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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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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.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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