I started at the top and worked my way down.
ORSON WELLESA good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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 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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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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