Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
ORSON WELLESPersonally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
ORSON WELLESThe director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
ORSON WELLESAt twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
ORSON WELLESOnly in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLESA bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
ORSON WELLESI’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
ORSON WELLESA good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
ORSON WELLESI’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
ORSON WELLESThe Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
ORSON WELLESIf I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
ORSON WELLESNobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
ORSON WELLESPopularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
ORSON WELLESHollywood 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 WELLESPeople are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
ORSON WELLESI want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
ORSON WELLESWhat’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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