If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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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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