Orson Welles Quotes & Quotations

Orson Welles Quotes

» In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

» Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

» The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

» They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

» The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

» I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

» I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

» The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

» When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.

» Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

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