Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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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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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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.
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