I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
ORSON WELLES
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Criminals 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.
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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.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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.
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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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