I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
ORSON WELLESI 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.
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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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