What we professional liars hope to serve is truth. I'm afraid the pompous word for that is 'art.' Picasso himself said it. Art is a lie. A lie that makes us realize the truth.
- Orson Welles in F for Fake
- Orson Welles in F for Fake
Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce my 52 assistants. Notice the contrast of style and character. They range from ingratiating simplicity to regal splendour. Some are passive and inert, others brazen and belligerent. Some suicidal, just like you and me. But card artistry, just like other theatrical forms, music and dance, has its own styles, its own classics, its own genres.
- Ricky Jay in Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (1996)
- Ricky Jay in Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (1996)
F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)
Rien ne va plus (Claude Chabrol, 1997)
Abus de faiblesse (Catherine Breillat, 2013)
House of Games (David Mamet, 1987)
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