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.
ORSON WELLESAsk not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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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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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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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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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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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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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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