My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other
people.
– Orson Welles
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we
made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
– Orson Welles
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
– Orson Welles
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
– Orson Welles
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
– Orson Welles
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have
laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
– Orson Welles
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
– Orson Welles
Even if the good old days never existed, the fact that we can conceive such a world is, in
fact, an affirmation of the human spirit.
– Orson Welles
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
– Orson Welles
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad, except you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
– Orson Welles
Movie directing is the perfect refuge for the mediocre.
– Orson Welles
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
– Orson Welles
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts.
– Orson Welles
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And
if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter – you’re the one who sat down, and joined the
game.
– Orson Welles
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step
with his time.
– Orson Welles
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
– Orson Welles
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
– Orson Welles
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
– Orson Welles
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back
of the theater, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap
seats, not Mount Sinai.
– Orson Welles