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.
ORSON WELLESDon’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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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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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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