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Orson Welles Inspirational Quotes (111)

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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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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.
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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
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In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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I don't think any word can explain a man's life.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.
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The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.
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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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