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.
ORSON WELLESThe cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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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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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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