In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least… — 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
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. — 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
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and… — 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
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
You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful. — 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
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of… — 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
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