I have an unfortunate personality.
ORSON WELLESCriticism is the essence of creation.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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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’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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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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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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