304 Quotes by Orson Welles

One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden...Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.

If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'

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

I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.