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.
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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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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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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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