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.
ORSON WELLESNobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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