Top 100 Quotes by Orson Welles

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.