Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
ORSON WELLESThe Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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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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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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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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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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