Orson Welles Quotes

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

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as close to a genius as anyone I have ever met.

By Orson Welles

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

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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

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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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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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

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

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

By Orson Welles