Orson Welles Quotes - Page 8

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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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• 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.

  Orson Welles

  Fighting, Sitting, Use

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• I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.

  Orson Welles

  Decision, Mind, Done

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

  Orson Welles

  Play, Television

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• A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.

  Orson Welles

  Art, Boys, Toys

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• The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

  Orson Welles

  Law, Exhibitionism, Form

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• Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. Well, tonight, six years later, I got my candy - all of it. Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer! Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle

  Orson Welles

  Copies, Extras, Chronicles

  "Fictional character: Charles Foster Kane". Citizen Kane, 1941.

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• I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

  Orson Welles

  Class, Worry, Ordinary

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

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  Mother, Father, Stories

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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.

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  Mean, Aquariums, Flying

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

  Orson Welles

  Scene, Ecstasy, Celluloid

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• The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

  Orson Welles

  Mean, Play, Reason

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• There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

  Orson Welles

  Play, Way, Classic

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• You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

  Orson Welles

  Writing, Ideas, Pins

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• 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.

  Orson Welles

  Phones, Years, Waiting

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• A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

  Orson Welles

  Term, Toasts, Knows

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

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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.

  Orson Welles

  Needs, Filling, Studios

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• 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.

  Orson Welles

  Believe, Lenses, Film

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.

  Orson Welles

  Editing, Style, Vision

  "The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema". Book by Jean Mitry, Indiana University Press, p. 176, 1999.

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

  Orson Welles

  Genius, Deny

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• I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

  Orson Welles

  Mirrors, Age, Six

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

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  Two, Praying, Stage

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

  Orson Welles

  Film, Colonists, Colony

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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