When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
ORSON WELLESCreate your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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 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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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