Top 100 Quotes by Orson Welles

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

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.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

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.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.