Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLESEverything 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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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 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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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 don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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