QUOTES by George Orson Welles
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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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"You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful."
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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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"The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age."
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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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"In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one."
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"I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately."
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"Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end."
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"Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world."
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"I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody."
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"I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon."
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"A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have."
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"I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them."
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"There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present."
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"Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it."
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"Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame."
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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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"I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time."
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"There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze."
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"By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment."
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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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"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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"I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere."
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"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."
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"When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't."
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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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"Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money."
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"You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin."
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"[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived."
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"It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations."
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"I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician."
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"I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts."
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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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