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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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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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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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The cinema has no boundary it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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