They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLESCriticism is the essence of creation.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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 classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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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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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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