I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
ORSON WELLESI 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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’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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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