Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
ORSON WELLESMy doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Paris 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.
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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.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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The 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.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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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.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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