Orson Welles/return To Hollywood 1956%e2%80%931959

Famous quotes containing the words orson welles, welles, return and/or hollywood:

    “A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.”
    —Orson Welles (1915–1984)

    “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 (1915–1984)

    “I shall return in the dark and be seen,
    Be led to my own room by well-intentioned hands,
    Placed in a box with a lid whose underside is dark
    So as to grow....”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Isn’t Hollywood a dump—in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)