I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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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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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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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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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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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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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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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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