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 WELLESOld age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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 have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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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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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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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