A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
ORSON WELLESThe 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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’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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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