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
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making… — 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… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to… — 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
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
A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the… — 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)
