At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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 don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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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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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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