Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
ORSON WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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