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.
ORSON WELLESThe enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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.
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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.
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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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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