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.
ORSON WELLESIgnorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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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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