If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
ORSON WELLESOnly in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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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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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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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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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 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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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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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