They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLESThey teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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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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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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