The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
ORSON WELLESA director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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