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Citizen Kane

— Orson Welles

More from Orson Welles

  1. Everybody denies that I am genius - but nobody ever called me one.
  2. Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
  3. She's the most exciting woman in the world!
  4. The Third Man (the Harry Lime section contains Welles's famous ad lib about war)
  5. If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
  6. The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.
  7. Tell Turner to keep his goddamned Crayolas away from my film!
  8. Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

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Topics in this quote

  • art
  • film
  • movie
  • cinema
  • culture

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