Word Genius Quotes by Orson Welles

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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…
• 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…
• The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum,…
• I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and…
• I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold…
• 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.

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