The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
ORSON WELLESAt twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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 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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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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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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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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 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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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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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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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.
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