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.
ORSON WELLESI 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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 passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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.
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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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