A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die. Orson Welles More Quotes by Orson Welles More Quotes From Orson Welles The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success. Orson Welles long people thinking One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody. Orson Welles vision garden animal If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.' Orson Welles film would-be world Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. Orson Welles fake-people heart believe You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen. Orson Welles japan play morning I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. Orson Welles play television I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. Orson Welles equipment politician FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'. Orson Welles actors two america We will sell no wine before its time. Orson Welles tv-commercial sells wine Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. Orson Welles colonists colony film I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with. Orson Welles done decision mind A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had. Orson Welles toys boys art The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him. Orson Welles has-beens said men Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. Orson Welles agents strong-women lawyer There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze. Orson Welles classic play way Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question. Orson Welles wall creativity believe You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin. Orson Welles pins writing ideas [The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived. Orson Welles motivation people world In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. Orson Welles
