Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.
Orson WellesIn my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
Orson WellesThe trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.
Orson Wellesn Italy for 30 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 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
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