Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
ORSON WELLESMy kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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 writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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 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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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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