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 WELLESA good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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