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 WELLESNow 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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.
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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’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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 dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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