Orson Welles Quotes

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.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

I hate television.  I hate it as much as peanuts.  But I can't stop eating peanuts.

As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.

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 [Sergei] Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.

I think I made, essentially, a mistake, staying in movies. But it’s a mistake I can’t regret, because it’s like saying, ‘I shouldn’t have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her. I would’ve been more successful if I hadn’t been married to her…’ You know?

It's about two percent movie-making and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.

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.

This theatre is your theatre. You are responsible for its creation and its progress.

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.

No-one was more unreal and stylized, yet there is no moment when he was not true.