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.
ORSON WELLESThe camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
More Orson Welles Quotes
-
-
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.
ORSON WELLES -
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
ORSON WELLES -
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
ORSON WELLES -
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
ORSON WELLES -
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
ORSON WELLES -
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLES -
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
ORSON WELLES -
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
ORSON WELLES -
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
ORSON WELLES -
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
ORSON WELLES -
Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
ORSON WELLES -
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
ORSON WELLES -
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLES -
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
ORSON WELLES -
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
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 WELLES -
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
ORSON WELLES -
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
ORSON WELLES