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Orson Welles

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Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

Source/Notes: "Ribbon of Dreams". As quoted in: International Film Annual, Issue 2, Doubleday, 1958, p. 164

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Orson Welles

“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.”

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Orson Welles

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.”

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Orson Welles

“At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.”

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Orson Welles

“Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”

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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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Orson Welles

“Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.”

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Orson Welles

“Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.”

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Orson Welles

“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”

Source/Notes: As quoted in: "Theatrical direction: the basic techniques" (Allyn and Bacon, 1971) by David Welker, p. 394

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Orson Welles

“Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!”

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Orson Welles

“Fake is as old as the Eden tree.”

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Orson Welles

“Gluttony is not a secret vice.”

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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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Orson Welles

“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.”

Source/Notes: The fabulous Orson Welles (Hutchinson, 1956), p. 207

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