The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
ORSON WELLESThey teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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I 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.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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Popularity 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.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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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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