The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
ORSON WELLESCreate your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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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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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