My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
ORSON WELLESI’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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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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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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