304 Quotes by Orson Welles

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

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.

As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.