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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 don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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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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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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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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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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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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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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