Orson Welles Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Orson Welles
Orson Welles Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two ... Work is an expression of life.
I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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.
The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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.
Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.
Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
I look back on my life and it's 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It's no way to live.
I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.
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.
Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.
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.