304 Quotes by Orson Welles

I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

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.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn’t stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

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

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

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, ’cause it was lawless. A man’s word had to mean something.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows – his own.

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn’t know what was ahead of me.

I got that good a contract because I really didn’t want to make a film.