I have an unfortunate personality.
ORSON WELLESThe cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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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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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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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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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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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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