304 Quotes by Orson Welles

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.