Quotes by Orson Welles
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
Criticism is the essence of creation.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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.