I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLESI’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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