A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
ORSON WELLES
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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
-
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
ORSON WELLES -
I have an unfortunate personality.
ORSON WELLES -
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLES -
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
ORSON WELLES -
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
ORSON WELLES -
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
ORSON WELLES -
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
ORSON WELLES -
I started at the top and worked my way down.
ORSON WELLES