F for Fake (1973)
Clifford Irving: Self
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Clifford Irving : I've known Elmyr for about eight years. We met when I was broke. When I was writing fiction. I wasn't selling it very well.
Orson Welles : His fiction didn't sell. Elmyr's biographer's a highly gifted writer. Does it say something for this age of ours that he could only make it big by fakery?
Elmyr de Hory : Le grande surprise!
Orson Welles : Cliff Irving's caper may well be the hoax of the century, but, really, this is not, you know, in any way the century of the hoax. We hanky-panky men have always been with you.
Elmyr de Hory : That's a fact.
Orson Welles : What's new?
Clifford Irving : The experts.
Elmyr de Hory : The so-called experts...
Orson Welles : Experts are the new oracles.
Elmyr de Hory : - are greatly pretentious...
Orson Welles : They speak to us with the absolute authority of the computer.
Elmyr de Hory : - pretend to know something what they only know very superficially.
Orson Welles : And we bow down before them. They're God's own gift to the faker.
Clifford Irving : All the world loves to see the experts and the establishment made a fool of.