Orson Welles Quotes (66 Quotes)

I have an early call tomorrow. For a commercial. Dog food, I think it is this time. No, I do not eat from the can on camera but I celebrate the contents. Yes, I have fallen so low.

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.

I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

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.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

I have an unfortunate personality.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

I spent four years writing a love letter to her and she died before I finished the letter. I went to Denmark to se her, and I stayed three days, and I didn't have the nerve to go and see her.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

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.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers -- because males have got to try and justify their existence.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.