Orson Welles
- On the importance of art, pt. 2
I don't regard myself as fundamentally a professional, you know, anyway - I'm basically an adventurer. Those people who are serious and are professional, truly and deeply serious at the expense of every other value in life, are probably the people who make the biggest contribution to art. I certainly wouldn't like to be one of them.
Orson Welles
- The Paris interview - on the importance of art
I don't regard art as of prime importance; I already told you I prefer every other loyalty in life to art. I hate the romantic conception of art as taking precedence over anything - I think it's the last thing to be considered, always. I certainly would regard friendship as more important than my art.
Orson Welles
- Contradictions
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.
Ingmar Bergman
- On the films of Jean-Luc Godard
I've never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual, and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He's made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, Feminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mind-numbingly boring.
