Top 100 Quotes by Orson Welles

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

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.

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.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.