Orson Welles 1915-1985, American Film Maker Quotes
Everybody denies I am a genius -- but nobody ever called me one!
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
The director is simply the audience. . . . His job is to preside over accidents.
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 girl friends.
When you are down and out something always turns up--and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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.