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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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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