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.
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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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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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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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