Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
ORSON WELLESFriendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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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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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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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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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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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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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