Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
ORSON WELLESI’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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 started at the top and worked my way down.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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!
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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