A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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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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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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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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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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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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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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