Orson Welles Quotes

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.

I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.

We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.