A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents. Orson Welles More Quotes by Orson Welles More Quotes From Orson Welles Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone. Orson Welles illusion Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm Orson Welles character men america I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. Orson Welles suggestions theatre giving Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. Orson Welles lunch-break food country I have an unfortunate personality. Orson Welles unfortunate personality 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 down-and hollywood games The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. Orson Welles gangsters invention hollywood 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. Orson Welles money sake thinking What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other Orson Welles happenings happened happens The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world. Orson Welles cameras photography world Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much. Orson Welles song war fall In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. Orson Welles men mean ideas My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. Orson Welles actors writing directors If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio. Orson Welles editing long mean 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? Orson Welles gentleman names directors Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up. Orson Welles luxury lap life At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. Orson Welles permanent twenties birthday A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens. Orson Welles men boys two I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen. Orson Welles hate sex hands In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God. Orson Welles opinion praying two
