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You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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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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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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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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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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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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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]
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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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