I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLESI 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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I’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.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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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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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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