The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
ORSON WELLESMy kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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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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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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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