The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
ORSON WELLESCrooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
More Orson Welles Quotes
-
-
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
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 WELLES -
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLES -
I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
ORSON WELLES -
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
ORSON WELLES -
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLES -
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
ORSON WELLES -
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
ORSON WELLES -
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
ORSON WELLES -
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
ORSON WELLES -
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.
ORSON WELLES -
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
ORSON WELLES