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.
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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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