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.
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 WELLESAt twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
ORSON WELLESSee, 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.
ORSON WELLESA writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
ORSON WELLESParis is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
ORSON WELLESThe most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
ORSON WELLESIf you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
ORSON WELLESThe ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
ORSON WELLESHuman nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
ORSON WELLESWe’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 WELLESOur songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
ORSON WELLESAn artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
ORSON WELLESA man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
ORSON WELLESI prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
ORSON WELLESDon’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
ORSON WELLESCriticism is the essence of creation.
ORSON WELLES