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" If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. "

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" My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful. "

" I have an unfortunate personality. "

" Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. "

" I drove from Naples to the Amalfi coast in an Alpha Romeo 1969 Spider, which was lovely. There have been lots of movies made down there, and I felt a bit like James Bond - the driving is quite hairy. The locals have mopeds, but you wouldn't catch me on a bike on those roads. A tank would be safer! "

" People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. "

" The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer. "

" I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.' "

" 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. "

" I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it. "

" When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. "

" 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. "

" Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. "

Martin Scorsese

" Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited. "

" My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. "

" Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. "

" Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. "

" In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. "

" I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. "

" Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do. "

" A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. "

" I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. "

" Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. "

" Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you? "

" 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. "

" If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. "

" The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. "

" Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. "