Orson Welles Quotes - Page 7

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• I don't want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.127, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Orson Welles

  Mean, Masters

  Quoted in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and Ronald L. Davis, Hollywood Anecdotes (1988)

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• I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.

  Orson Welles

  Sex, Hate, Hands

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.

  Orson Welles

  Looks, Ifs

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• There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

  Orson Welles

  Civilization, Century, Theater

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• Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

  Orson Welles

  Art, War, Winning

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• In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.

  Orson Welles

  Country, Fake, Special

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

  Orson Welles

  Fake People, Believe, Heart

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• I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

  Orson Welles

  Men, Thinking, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Herman Jacob Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael (1971). “The Citizen Kane book”

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• We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

  Orson Welles

  Girlfriend, Order, Civilization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't take art as seriously as politics.

  Orson Welles

  Art

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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.

  Orson Welles

  Jobs, Hollywood, Blame

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• I'm a lurid character!

  Orson Welles

  Character

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• I never said I was a genius.

  Orson Welles

  Genius, Said

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• If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!

  Orson Welles

  Art, Writing, Want

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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.

  Orson Welles

  Motivation, People, World

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• Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

  Orson Welles

  Real, Looks, Prodigies

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

  Orson Welles

  Men, Said, Has Beens

  Peter Bogdanovich, Orson Welles, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Film Library (1961). “The cinema of Orson Welles”

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• Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

  Orson Welles

  Mean, Expression, Cinema

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• In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

  Orson Welles

  Cameras, Rolling, Cinema

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• I have no great message to the world.

  Orson Welles

  World, Messages

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

  Orson Welles

  Book, Beer, Order

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• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  Orson Welles

  Hobbies, Making Money, Abandon

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• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  Orson Welles

  Perfect, Mediocre, Refuge

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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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.

  Orson Welles

  Reading, Writing, Cutting

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