Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
Orson WellesRead
I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a passion for filmmaking and the creative process over other activities.
Orson Welles emphasizes the importance of being actively engaged in one's passion, highlighting how being on a film set brings him fulfillment and joy compared to any other experience. This reflects the notion that true happiness comes from immersing oneself in what one loves, particularly in the context of artistic expression and collaboration.
In practice
In a speech at a film festival to inspire young filmmakers.
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.
For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: βThere is the surface. Now think β or rather feel, intuit β what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.β Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy
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