. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual… — 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
[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors… — 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
You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work… — 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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