They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLESEverything 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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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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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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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