The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
ORSON WELLESI have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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 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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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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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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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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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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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.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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