I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
ORSON WELLESI don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
ORSON WELLESWorking is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
ORSON WELLESPersonally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
ORSON WELLESA bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
ORSON WELLESThe director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
ORSON WELLESI look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
ORSON WELLESI love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
ORSON WELLESA film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
ORSON WELLESThe classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
ORSON WELLESThe Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
ORSON WELLESWhat’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
ORSON WELLESMy kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
ORSON WELLESHuman nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
ORSON WELLESA good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
ORSON WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLESThe 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.
ORSON WELLES