I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
ORSON WELLESI’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
ORSON WELLESThere are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
ORSON WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLESParis is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
ORSON WELLESCriticism is the essence of creation.
ORSON WELLESThey teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLESI dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
ORSON WELLESIf you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
ORSON WELLESMy doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
ORSON WELLESRace hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
ORSON WELLESSee, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
ORSON WELLESOld age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
ORSON WELLESCriminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
ORSON WELLESI seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
ORSON WELLESParis is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
ORSON WELLESI’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
ORSON WELLES