Tag: Orson Welles
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
Orson Welles
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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.
Orson Welles
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
Orson Welles
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
Orson Welles
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles
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Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
Orson Welles
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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn’t stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
Orson Welles
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
Orson Welles
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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 Welles
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I’ve only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
Orson Welles