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The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.
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 want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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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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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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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
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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 have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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