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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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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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If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
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There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.
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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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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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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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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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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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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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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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