George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, writer and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in radio, theatre and film. He is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. While in his twenties Welles directed a number of high-profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project, including an adaptation of Macbeth with an entirely African American cast and the political musical The Cradle Will Rock. In 1937 he and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented a series of productions on Broadway through 1941, including Caesar (1937), a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. In 1938, his radio anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air gave Welles the platform to find international fame as the director and narrator of a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds, which caused widespread panic because many listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was actually occurring. Although some contemporary sources say these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to notoriety. May these Orson Welles Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.” Orson Welles
2. “Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.” Orson Welles
3. “A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.” Orson Welles
4. “The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.” Orson Welles
5. “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” Orson Welles
6. “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 occurred to me that I wasn’t until middle age.” Orson Welles
7. “I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.” Orson Welles
8. “I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it’s over and done with.” Orson Welles
9. “A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.” Orson Welles
10. “The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.” Orson Welles
11. “A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.” Orson Welles
12. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” Orson Welles
13. “I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.” Orson Welles
14. “Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.” Orson Welles
15. “When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.” Orson Welles
16. “My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!” Orson Welles
17. “Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.” Orson Welles
18. “Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.” Orson Welles
19. “As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it’s the aspect.” Orson Welles
20. “Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.” Orson Welles
21. “The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.” Orson Welles
22. “A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.” Orson Welles
23. “I started at the top and worked my way down.” Orson Welles
24. “The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.” Orson Welles
25. “I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.” Orson Welles
26. “I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.” Orson Welles
27. “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” Orson Welles
28. “Criticism is the essence of creation.” Orson Welles
29. “The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.” Orson Welles
30. “Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” Orson Welles
31. “I don’t want to forgive myself. That’s why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you’re guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it – how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.” Orson Welles
32. “People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.” Orson Welles
33. “Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.” Orson Welles
34. “The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.” Orson Welles
35. “Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.” Orson Welles
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