Tag: Orson Welles
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I don’t like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
Orson Welles
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
Orson Welles
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
Orson Welles
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I – but it’s a mistake I can’t regret, because it’s like saying, ‘I shouldn’t have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.’
Orson Welles
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.
Orson Welles
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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.
Orson Welles
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If you’ve noticed that I don’t use long takes, it’s not because I don’t like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It’s more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
Orson Welles
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles
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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.
Orson Welles
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
Orson Welles