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Orson Welles Quotes
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful (Orson Welles Quotes)
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can (Orson Welles Quotes)
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered (Orson Welles Quotes)
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible (Orson Welles Quotes)
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant (Orson Welles Quotes)
Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers (Orson Welles Quotes)
If I don’t like somebody’s looks, I don’t like them (Orson Welles Quotes)
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don’t mean a conceit of the producer (Orson Welles Quotes)
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 Welles Quotes)
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow (Orson Welles Quotes)
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them (Orson Welles Quotes)
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet (Orson Welles Quotes)
I try to be a Christian... I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God (Orson Welles Quotes)
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts (Orson Welles Quotes)
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could (Orson Welles Quotes)
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army (Orson Welles Quotes)