Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
ORSON WELLESMy kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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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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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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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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