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.
ORSON WELLESI don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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 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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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