I started at the top and worked my way down.
ORSON WELLESWhat’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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