The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
ORSON WELLESNobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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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