A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
ORSON WELLESIn 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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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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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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