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.
ORSON WELLESHollywood 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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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 love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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