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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

— Orson Welles

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Notes from Wikiquote

Welles script (a collaboration with Oja Kodar) was heavily rewritten for the 1999 film.

More quotes by Orson Welles

Ignorance, there is no authority in the world like it.

An audience is not so much a complement to an actor's ego, as a challenge to his capacities.

speaking in an episode of Orson Welles Sketch-Book (1955)

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.

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