At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
ORSON WELLESI’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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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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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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