The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
ORSON WELLESI don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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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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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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 passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I 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.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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