Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end. Orson Welles More Quotes by Orson Welles More Quotes From Orson Welles 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 depressing love life n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles love life funny Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible. Orson Welles want giving thinking When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. Orson Welles normal law people I started at the top and worked my way down. Orson Welles my-way way Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. Orson Welles human-nature hate race A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles film-directing movie eye My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see? Orson Welles marijuana texas light If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Orson Welles optimistic writing happiness I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out Orson Welles boat rocks people Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. Orson Welles fashion unique successful Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. Orson Welles modest tough bigs My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. Orson Welles health weight-loss food Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. Orson Welles popularity election ducks Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. Orson Welles contradiction saint two If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. Orson Welles girlfriend life funny The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream. Orson Welles ribbons cinema dream The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. Orson Welles creativity inspirational art A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. Orson Welles army artist needs Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck. Orson Welles good-luck men thinking
