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.
ORSON WELLESI’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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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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 dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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