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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.

— Orson Welles

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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)

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

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.

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