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Orson Welles Inspirational Quotes (110)

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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect it's the aspect.
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as looking like an unmade bed. He was right!
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Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.
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I don't take art as seriously as politics.
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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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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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