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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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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 an unfortunate personality.
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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 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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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 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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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Human nature is eternal therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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The cinema has no boundary it is a ribbon of dream.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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