I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
ORSON WELLESI’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
ORSON WELLESI hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
ORSON WELLESI’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.
ORSON WELLESThey teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLESWhen people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
ORSON WELLESPeople are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
ORSON WELLESI have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
ORSON WELLESFuture shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
ORSON WELLESOur songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
ORSON WELLESI can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
ORSON WELLESThe cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
ORSON WELLESI started at the top and worked my way down.
ORSON WELLESA film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
ORSON WELLESThere are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
ORSON WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLESI don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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