Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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I 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.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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