304 Quotes by Orson Welles

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

The 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.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

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