304 Quotes by Orson Welles

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don’t make money, you’re to blame. Your job is to make money.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

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

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

I don’t regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

I don’t want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don’t think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully – not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.

Everybody denies I am a genius – but nobody ever called me one!

Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I’ve always wanted to be a magician.