If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.' — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in… — 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
[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 director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me… — 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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