Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
ORSON WELLESA writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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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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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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 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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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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