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.
ORSON WELLESThe Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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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 director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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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’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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