Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
ORSON WELLESThere are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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