Orson Welles Quotes
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I have no great message to the world.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... walks out.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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I never said I was a genius.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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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'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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Just breathe at the end of the line or on the punctuation. If you lose that, and lose the iambic pentameter, you'll lose all the sense of what you're saying. And if you do breathe, you'll find that Shakespeare's verse is like a surfboard.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.