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Orson Welles

American actor and filmmaker108 QUOTES

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Orson Welles was an American actor and filmmaker. He worked in film, radio, and theatre, and became known for an inventive approach that left a deep mark on each medium. He is remembered for his innovative work across those fields, especially for the way he expanded what could be done on stage, on the air, and on screen. His influence on filmmaking in particular is widely noted, and his career remains closely associated with bold, original storytelling.

“אני לא מתפלל כי אני לא רוצה לשעמם את אלוהים.”

“אני חושב שזו תמיד נוסחה טובה להפליא בכל צורה אמנותית להודות במגבלות הצורה.”

“אני שונא טלוויזיה. אני שונא אותה כמו שאני שונא בוטנים. אבל אני לא יכול להפסיק לאכול בוטנים.”

“האויב של האמנות הוא חוסר הגבולות.”

“משורר זקוק לעט, צייר למברשת ומנהל לצבא.”

“האופטימיסטים אינם מסוגלים להבין את המשמעות של מי שמעריץ את הבלתי אפשרי.”

“אני רוצה לתת לקהל רמז של הסצנה. לא יותר מכך. תן להם יותר מדי והם לא יתרמו דבר מעצמם. תן להם הצעה ואתה גורם להם לעבוד איתך.”

“אמן טוב צריך להיות מבודד, אם הוא לא מבודד משהו לא בסדר.”

“צרו את הסגנון הוויזואלי הייחודי שלכם. תנו לו להיות ייחודי לכם ובאותו זמן ניתן לזיהוי לאחרים.”

“Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.”

“Gluttony is not a secret vice.”

“I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.”

“If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.”

“Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.”

“The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.”

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”

“I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.”

“Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?”

“I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.”

“As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.”