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.
ORSON WELLESI 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!
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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