I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
ORSON WELLESNever expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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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.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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