Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
ORSON WELLESCrooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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 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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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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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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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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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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