The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
ORSON WELLESEvery true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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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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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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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 people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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 have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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