Orson Welles Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I started at the top and worked my way down.”
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“Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
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“Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.”
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“Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.”
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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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“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
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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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“There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...”
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“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
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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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“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.”
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“The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.”
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“When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.”
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“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.”
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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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“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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“There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.”
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“I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.”
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“Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.”
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“When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.”
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“In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
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“I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling It's no way to spend a life.”
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“The basic and essential human is the woman.”
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“A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.”
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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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“The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.”
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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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“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”
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