Orson Welles Quotes

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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.
When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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.
I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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