If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
ORSON WELLESIf I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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