Orson Welles Quotes

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• There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
• An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
• Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of…
• Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
• The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
• I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I…
• The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the…
• I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're…
• I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and…
• I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.
• I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
• Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
• Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no…
• Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
• The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never…
• You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing…
• The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents....
• I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.
• FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'.
• My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule…

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