Orson Welles Quotes
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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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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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I never said I was a genius.
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Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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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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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 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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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
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'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.