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.
ORSON WELLESA man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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 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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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.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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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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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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