A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
ORSON WELLESI don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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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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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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