Orson Welles Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, Giving, Want

• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

  Orson Welles

  Giving, Theatre, Suggestions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, Color, Years

• If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

  Orson Welles

  Mean, Editing, Long

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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