If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
ORSON WELLESIf you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
ORSON WELLESThey teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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 WELLESHuman nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
ORSON WELLESThe director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
ORSON WELLESI have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
ORSON WELLESOnly in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLESI have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
ORSON WELLESA writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
ORSON WELLESAsk not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
ORSON WELLESParis 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 I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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 WELLESCriticism is the essence of creation.
ORSON WELLESSee, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
ORSON WELLESHollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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