Criticism is the essence of creation.
ORSON WELLESFuture shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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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.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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