Orson Welles Quotes

One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden…Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a John Ford, or a Jean Renoir, or anybody.

Orson Welles

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• If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Important
  • Real
  • Truth

• Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Time
  • Love
  • For Her

• It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Beauty
  • Grace

• 'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Family
  • House
  • First

• I hope to get out before they start football next year.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Hope
  • Football
  • Start

• People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Fear
  • Value

• All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • May
  • History
  • Culture

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Family
  • Why
  • Want

• I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Little
  • Got
  • Tomboy

• Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Capitalism

• Sleep is the best meditation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Down

• Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Job
  • Cricket
  • Committee

• If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Think
  • Free
  • Small

• Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pleasure

• The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Want
  • Nice
  • Moving

• A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Career
  • Opportunity
  • Cookie

• One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

  

  Chris Jordan
  • World
  • Long
  • Art

• And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

  

  Dick Wolf

• I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

  

  Bobby Darin

• Sublime wonders lie in store,I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom, an empirewith more grandeur than before.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Lying
  • Kingdoms
  • Sublime

• One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden…Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a John Ford, or a Jean Renoir, or anybody.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Vision
  • Garden