Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
ORSON WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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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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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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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