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The cinema has no boundary it is a ribbon of dream.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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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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What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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