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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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I don't want any description of me to be accurate I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.
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I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.
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Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect it's the aspect.
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
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I don't think any word can explain a man's life.
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There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.
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I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.
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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 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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