I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
ORSON WELLESThe cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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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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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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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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