Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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 started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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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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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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