Orson Welles Quotes

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Everyone needs some trial and error figuring out how it's gonna work for them. I could have gotten that out of the way a little sooner but I think you're totally right, the way I kind of think about things and the way I wanted to put myself out there doesn't fit the traditional side of things. I needed things like podcasts and YouTube and things that allow you to get it out there yourself and stand in the flames.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

You are constantly looking for ways to do something you haven't done before, whether it's a particular role or doing theatre. As a person, I'm really open to experience.

I want to feel like I'm doing something creative and trying different things, putting different hats on and playing. I don't know what's the point otherwise; otherwise, it's just a job. You punch a time clock.

I just think that I'm a person who's trying to find the truth and express it as I, you know, get the opportunity.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

I come out of real life.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be.

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time.

When you're younger, you want to project an image of yourself through your work, but now, I just want to make something honest.