A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
ORSON WELLESI’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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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