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.
ORSON WELLESI have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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