QUOTES by George Orson Welles
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"The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer."
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"I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians."
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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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"I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford."
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"If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm."
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"Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible."
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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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"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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"A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army."
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"Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life."
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"Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore."
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"A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves."
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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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"Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan."
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"'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed."
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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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"Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful."
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"I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible."
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"Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game."
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"Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head."
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"There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women."
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"[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!"
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"I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob."
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"If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking."
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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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"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 look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live."
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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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"The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents."
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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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"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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