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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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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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If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]
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