A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
ORSON WELLESI don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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.
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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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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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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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