304 Quotes by Orson Welles

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

I drag my myth around with me.

Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.

I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents....

I started at the top and worked my way down.