American - Actor | May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985
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.
Orson Welles
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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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.
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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?
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
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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.
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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.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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