The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
ORSON WELLESMy kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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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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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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