A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
ORSON WELLESOld age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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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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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’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.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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