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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
Tags: long, you, me, myself

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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
— Orson Welles
Tags: others, your, unique, style, yourself
I have an unfortunate personality.
— Orson Welles
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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
— Orson Welles
Tags: street, day, night, you
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
Tags: woman, mistake, regret, love
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
Tags: phone, waiting, me, work
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