Orson Welles Quotes
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
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Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
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Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden…Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a John Ford, or a Jean Renoir, or anybody.
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I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.
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I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.
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This theatre is your theatre. You are responsible for its creation and its progress.
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An audience is not so much a complement to an actor's ego, as a challenge to his capacities.