The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
ORSON WELLESI prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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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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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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 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.
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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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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