Orson Welles
Orson Welles
George Orson Welleswas an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. He is remembered for his innovative work in all three: in theatre, most notably Caesar, a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; in radio, the 1938 broadcast "The War of the Worlds", one of the most famous in the history of radio; and in film, Citizen Kane, consistently ranked as one of the all-time greatest films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 May 1915
CityKenosha, WI
CountryUnited States of America
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
I don't take art as seriously as politics.
Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.
I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.
I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with "in" and emphasize it. Get me a jury and show me how you can say "In July" and I'll go down on you. That's just idiotic, if you'll forgive me for saying so. It's just stupid... "In July"; I'd love to know how you emphasize "In" in "In July". Impossible! Meaningless!
Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm not so good with high society, in either North or South America, because I'm highly unconventional. Perhaps I bewilder people by being at once the esthete, the intellectual and the vulgarian.