If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.' — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame. — 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
One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it,… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're… — 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
If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time… — 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
That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could… — 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
![“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.” quote by Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2d4/orson-welles-1628_adam_one-should-make-movies-innocently-the-wa_1972166.jpg)
![“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)
![“Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the…” quote by Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ffb/orson-welles-1628_committees_even-if-i-d-stayed-in-the-us-to-finish-t_1928965.jpg)
