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.
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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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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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Hollywood 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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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 have an unfortunate personality.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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