The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.' — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum,… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
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… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
![“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…” quote by Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c3f/orson-welles-1628_bad-time_the-people-who-ve-done-well-within-the-h_691566.jpg)
![“. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first…” quote by Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/871/orson-welles-1628_cinema_you-film-critics-always-overstress-the-v_573619.jpg)
