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 WELLESNever 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.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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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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 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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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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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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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