A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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’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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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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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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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