A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
ORSON WELLESA man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
ORSON WELLESThe cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
ORSON WELLESI 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 WELLESNever expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
ORSON WELLESCreate your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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 WELLESThey teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLESHuman nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
ORSON WELLESI 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 WELLESThere are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
ORSON WELLESA director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
ORSON WELLESI’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.
ORSON WELLESPeople are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
ORSON WELLESA movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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 WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLES