Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLESThe camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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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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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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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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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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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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