Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
ORSON WELLESThe camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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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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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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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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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