Criticism is the essence of creation.
ORSON WELLESI prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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 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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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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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