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 WELLESI have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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 prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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 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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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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