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Orson Welles: Make Money Hack
on Saturday, December 4, 2021Orson Welles Money Quote saying that he feels a hobby should become a money-maker or be given up. Orson Welles said:
“I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it” — Orson Welles
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Orson Welles: Expensive Paintbox
on Sunday, April 18, 2021Orson Welles Money Quote saying that hustling money to produce a movie is the greater part of what movie-makers do. Orson Welles said:
“I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I’ve spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It’s about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling It’s no way to spend a life” — Orson Welles
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In this quote, Orson Welles seems to be expressing regret over how much time and effort he spent trying to obtain funding for his films, rather than focusing solely on the creative process of moviemaking itself. By stating that making movies was “about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling,” and that it was “no way to spend a life,” Welles appears to be lamenting the large amount of energy he had to expend on fundraising, promotion and other business matters unrelated to the artistic craft of film direction.
His words suggest he felt he wasted a great deal of his potential and talents by having to spend so much of his career navigating the financial and commercial challenges of getting his film projects made, rather than immersed fully in the craft of cinematic storytelling.
Orson Welles: Class Distinction
on Friday, March 6, 2020Orson Welles Money Quote saying crooks aren’t very smart, unless they do well for themselves, then they are called successful. Orson Welles said:
“Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem” — Orson Welles
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Orson Welles: Sake of Posterity
on Sunday, January 26, 2020Orson Welles Money Quote saying that to imagine that posterity will value our work beyond what we are paid to do it. Orson Welles said:
“It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money” — Orson Welles
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