There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
ORSON WELLESThe enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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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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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore 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’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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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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