A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
ORSON WELLESOld age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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