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" 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. "

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" The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. "

" I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me. "

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

" The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. "

" Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. "

" 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? "

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

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

" The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. "

" 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. "

" There were centuries when civilization had no theater. "

" The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow. "

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

" Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. "

" My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful. "

" I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. "

" I would rather be on the set than doing anything. "

" 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. "

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

" The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. "

" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "

" 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. "

" In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night. "

" 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. "

" I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. "

" People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. "

" I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. "

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