Orson Welles Quotes
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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.
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If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
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I drag my myth around with me.
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You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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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 do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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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.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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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.
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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.
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There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.
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A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
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The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.
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There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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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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