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All Quotes by author - Orson Welles

" A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. "

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

" Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. "

" As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless. "

" Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. "

" At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. "

" Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. "

" Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. "

" Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. "

" Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited. "

" Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. "

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

" Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! "

" Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. "

" Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. "

" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "

" Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. "

" Gluttony is not a secret vice. "

" Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you? "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. "

" I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. "

" I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. "

" I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it. "

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

" 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. "

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

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