American - Actor | May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985
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 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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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I have no great message to the world.
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If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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