The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
ORSON WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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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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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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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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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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