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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.
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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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My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.
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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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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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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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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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