Orson Welles Short Quotes

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A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.

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Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons

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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out].

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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

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Old age: It's the only disease you don't look forward to being cured of.

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

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I like the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

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On the RKO studio:
This is the biggest electric train set any boy ever had.

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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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I try to be a Christian... I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

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This theatre is your theatre. You are responsible for its creation and its progress.

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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

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A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows — his own.

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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.

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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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I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.

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The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

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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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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 essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soap companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

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Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

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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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One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

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A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

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