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 WELLESA film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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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 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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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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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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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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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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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