The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
ORSON WELLESAn artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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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 seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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