Top 100 Quotes by Orson Welles

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

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

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

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.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.