Criticism is the essence of creation.
ORSON WELLESCriticism is the essence of creation.
ORSON WELLESIgnorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
ORSON WELLESA man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
ORSON WELLESA film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
ORSON WELLESThe cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
ORSON WELLESA bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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 WELLESOur songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
ORSON WELLESThe camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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 WELLESMy doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
ORSON WELLESThe Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
ORSON WELLESI 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.
ORSON WELLESI 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.
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 WELLESI’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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