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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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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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 have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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