33 Quotations by Orson Welles
- 1. A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
- 2. A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
- 3. Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
- 4. Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
- 5. Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
- 6. Everybody denies I am a genius -- but nobody ever called me one!
- 7. Gluttony is not a secret vice.
- 8. Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for ...
- 9. I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
- 10. I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an act ...
- 11. I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
- 12. I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agn ...
- 13. I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of t ...
- 14. I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with h ...
- 15. I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it wa ...
- 16. I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human ...
- 17. I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't ...
- 18. If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civili ...
- 19. If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
- 20. In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they ...
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