The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
ORSON WELLESCriminals 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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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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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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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