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You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.
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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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 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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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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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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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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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 passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.
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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.
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The cinema has no boundary it is a ribbon of dream.
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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.
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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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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I don't want any description of me to be accurate I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as looking like an unmade bed. He was right!
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