I’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 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 WELLESI prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
ORSON WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLESEvery true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
ORSON WELLESFuture shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
ORSON WELLESIf I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
ORSON WELLESI’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
ORSON WELLESNobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
ORSON WELLESA writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
ORSON WELLESSee, 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.
ORSON WELLESNobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
ORSON WELLESA man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
ORSON WELLESI have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
ORSON WELLESI’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
ORSON WELLESWhen you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
ORSON WELLESA movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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