An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
ORSON WELLESI prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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