Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
ORSON WELLESThe Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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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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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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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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 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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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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