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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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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 movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.
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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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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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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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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]
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The cinema has no boundary it is a ribbon of dream.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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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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I don't think any word can explain a man's life.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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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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Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.
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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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