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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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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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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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You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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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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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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The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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