Criticism is the essence of creation.
ORSON WELLESIf 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.
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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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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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 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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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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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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