What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
ORSON WELLESCriminals 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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 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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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