120 result(s) for Orson Welles Quotes.
"I do not like to be dictated to. I don't mind persuasion. But I don't like to be told what to do."
"The mutual joy of discovery is what makes this proposition so fascinating and stimulating."
"I think the hardest thing is to take the experience you have, the knowledge you have, and turn it into something that has permanence."
"If you want a thing very much, you must be prepared to give up everything else for it."
"People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story, their one true story, just like you."
"I have a great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it."
"To me, the most important thing is the act of faith, the act of believing in what I’m doing."
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"It is my belief that the duty of the artist is to remain sane amid the insanity of the world."
"I don't think there's anything new about being insane, it's just that we don't talk about it."
"There is no election. There is only the process of elections."
"The battle for the future is not about robots, it's about the quality of story."
"I think it is important to be honest with oneself; the only truly worthwhile thing is the truth."
"The fundamental thing is the human voice and how it affects people."
"What you don't know keeps you up at night."
"I’ve always thought that a writer should never consider their audience, only their muse."
"The truth is I'm a bit of a romantic; I've been that way since I was a child."
"In politics, nothing is unusable; everything is exploitable."
"I never thought I would be rich, but I always thought I would be successful."
"If you don't believe in yourself, who will?"
"You can't be a legend without a lot of pain and heartache."
"Death is the only solution to every problem."
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"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."
"I’m not an actor. I’m a storyteller."
"You’re not going to get much of a life if you’re just waiting for it to happen to you."
"The only way to get rid of a director is to kill him."
"I do not like to work for more than ten or twelve hours a day. I think that's excessive."
"Nobody makes a film for the film medium. You make a film for the audience."
"The absence of flaws in a painting is a flaw in itself."
"In the theater, you have to work with what you've got, but in the film, you can write your own script."
"What I really want to do is direct."
"I think the most important thing is to enjoy your life, to be happy. It's all that matters."
"I have the feeling that I'm a very public, very private person."
"The world is not going to change if you make it crazy, just wait and see."
"If you don't want to be a failure, you have to keep going."
"A director is a man who prescribes for others, but must accept the will of other men."
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"The most personal thing you can do is try to be universal."
"I am a firm believer in the letter that you can write to anybody, anytime, for any reason."
"To be an artist is to be in the age of crisis."
"Your life is a story told to you by your interests."
"I don't believe in the Director's cut. I think you have to get the job done and move on."
"There’s a difference between a movie and a film."
"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, the one for the audience of that time, the other for the audience of all time."
"The man who sees the world as it is, is a miser; the man who sees the world as it is not, is a poet."
"I create my own universe,"
"The enemy of society is middle class and average men."
"I started at the top and have been working my way down ever since."
"The globe is a very small place and it’s getting smaller."
"A film is like a battleground. It’s love, hate, action, violence, death... in one word, emotion."
"We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life."
"I don’t believe in the method. I believe in the moment."
"Every actor is at least a part of the audience."
"To be an artist is to believe in life."
"I wish I knew how to quit you."
"The idea of a magic wand is an appealing fantasy, but unfortunately it's fantasy."
"Film is a battleground. It’s love, hate, action, violence, death... In one word, emotion."
"You can't do anything without bad acting."
"The key to a good is a good ending, to have been living a lie that you would like to believe can be true."
"To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing."
"The most important thing in life is not to be afraid to be human."
"I think the one thing we need to do is look at life as an adventure."
"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it."
"There are only two kinds of music: good music and bad music."
"The more you know about the world, the more you learn that everything is true."
"I’m not a genius. I’m just a hard worker."
"Success is the enemy of the dream."
"Art is a way of survival."
"It’s the selection that we make. Getting our fingers into all that macaroni and cheese, all that pasta, and all that sugar. We can bring a lot of changes."
"The trouble with our world is that we make it either too easy or too complicated."
"A thing well done is worth doing."
"I think the most important thing in any story is to have a great character."
"I have no interest in being the best at what I do. I have an interest in doing what I do."
"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."
"If you want a thing really bad, you will get it. It may not be exactly what you want, but you'll get it."
"The worst thing that can happen to you is to be considered a genius."
"I do not think there is any man who has kept his heart more open than mine."
"A great artist is always before his time or behind it."
"I had no idea what I was doing, and, therefore, I didn't know you couldn't make a film like that."
"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you."
"The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure, the expensive mistress."
"You can't start a fire without a spark."
"I’m not going to pretend to be somebody I’m not. I don’t like to fake things."
"It’s all about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward."
"To be an artist is to be a critic of life."
"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."
"I cannot be silent. And I cannot be silent."
"The true enemy of humanity is the abstract idea."
"I’m not a master of my art. I’m merely an artist in my work."
"In any scenario where you are adopting a persona, you should try to make it a real thing."
"The best films are the ones that challenge you the most."
"Nothing is more important than your own ability to reinvent yourself."
"You can't fool the people. If you're popular, it's because they see something worth seeing."
"You have to be a genius to make a good talkie because there are reasons for everything you do in films."
"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is dullness."
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."
"I started at the top and worked my way down."
"The most exciting thing is that you can go anywhere, do anything, be anything in your own imagination."
"I am the theatre. I am the theatre and I am the theatre."
"A film is like a battleground. There's love, hate, action, violence, death. In one word: emotion."
"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art."
"I have a great love for my country, but I am not a nationalist."
"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose."
"I’m not going to let anyone take my love of life away from me."
"To be an artist is to be a lover of ideas."
"Without inspiration, we are nothing."
"The reporter is the world's historian."
"All the world's a stage, and I demand more place for my performance."
"I would love to be a part of it in any way. The role is less important than the process."
"What I love most about the theatre is that it brings us together for a moment."
"The more you let the world come to you, the more you'll get what you want."
"I think that if you want to be an artist you have to be open to the whole range of experience."
"There is nothing more important than the way a story is told."
"The worst thing about being in the public eye is that I don’t have any privacy."
"There's a certain reality that comes with getting older. There's a certain amount of despair, but there's also a certain amount of contentment."
"If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?"
"I live my life in a way that never separates my work from my life."
"I’m not afraid of failure; I’m afraid of not trying."
"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
"The only way to get rid of misfortune is to embrace it."
"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked off the stage and thought I will never do that again."
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