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.
ORSON WELLESIf you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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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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.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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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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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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