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.
ORSON WELLESWhen you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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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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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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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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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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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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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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