The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
ORSON WELLESThe enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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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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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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See, 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.
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