People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
ORSON WELLESI have an unfortunate personality.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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