A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
ORSON WELLESCriticism is the essence of creation.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I 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!
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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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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See, 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.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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