I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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