There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
ORSON WELLESThere are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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