They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLESMy kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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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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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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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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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 classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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