Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
ORSON WELLESI do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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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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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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