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Orson Welles Quotes


An American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio.
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio. Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality, Welles is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the twentieth century, especially for his significant and influential early work—despite his notoriously contentious relationship with Hollywood. His distinctive directorial style featured layered, nonlinear narrative forms, innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unique camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes.

Here are some famous quotes by Orson Welles.

A poet needs a pen a painter a brush and a filmmaker an army.

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

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

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

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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

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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.

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You know what the fellow said: In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare terror murder and bloodshed but they produced Michaelangelo Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love--they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.