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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 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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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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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'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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My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!
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A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.
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It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.
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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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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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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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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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