Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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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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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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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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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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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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