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 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.
ORSON WELLESHuman nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
ORSON WELLESNow 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.
ORSON WELLESNobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
ORSON WELLESA movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
ORSON WELLESI 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.
ORSON WELLESThe classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
ORSON WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLESI 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.
ORSON WELLESI don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLESI have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
ORSON WELLESThe 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.
ORSON WELLESA good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
ORSON WELLESOld age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
ORSON WELLESDon’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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