Orson Welles Quotes
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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 like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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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've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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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 never said I was a genius.
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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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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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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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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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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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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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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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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.