The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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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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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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