I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
ORSON WELLESA bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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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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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.
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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