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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
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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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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.
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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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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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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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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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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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