304 Quotes by Orson Welles

Criticism is the essence of creation.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling It's no way to spend a life.