Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
ORSON WELLESI have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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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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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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