Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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 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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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