Orson Welles Quotes
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
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But you can't emphasize 'beef', that's like his wanting me to emphasize 'in' before 'July'! Come on, fellows, you're losing your heads! I wouldn't direct any living actor like this in Shakespeare! The way you do this, it's impossible!
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.
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Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
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In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.