Welles

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“Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)

“The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)

“Thompson: Nothing particular the matter with him, they tell me, just ...
Bernstein: Just old age. It’s the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don’t look forward to being cured of.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)