I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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’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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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