Orson Welles Quotes
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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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 spend... twenty times more for you people than any other commercial I've ever made. You are such pests! Now what is it you want? In your... depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Whatever it is you want, I can't deliver, 'cause I just don't see it.
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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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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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... walks out.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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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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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
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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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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
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One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.
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Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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Men created civilization only to impress their girl friends
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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.