What did Orson Welles mean by: Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible. - Orson Welles Actor, director, producer, writer · USA Copy
+ A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Orson Welles, Born, Die, 0 - Orson Welles Actor, director, producer, writer · USA
+ If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be ‘Grand Illusion.’ Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Orson Welles, Film, 0 - Orson Welles Actor, director, producer, writer · USA
+ I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Orson Welles, Behavior, 0 - Orson Welles Actor, director, producer, writer · USA
+ A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows – his own. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Orson Welles, 0 - Orson Welles Actor, director, producer, writer · USA
+ The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Orson Welles, Best Things, Successful, Worst, 0 - Orson Welles Actor, director, producer, writer · USA
+ If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Orson Welles, Happiness, Optimistic, Writing, 0 - Orson Welles Actor, director, producer, writer · USA
+ Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Orson Welles, Modest, Tough, 0 - Orson Welles Actor, director, producer, writer · USA
+ A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Orson Welles, Army, Directors, 0 - Orson Welles Actor, director, producer, writer · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
