Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
ORSON WELLESEvery true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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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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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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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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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.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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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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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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