A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
ORSON WELLESI’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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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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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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