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.
ORSON WELLESCreate your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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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 camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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’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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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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