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
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.
I have an unfortunate personality.
Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
I drag my myth around with me.
I never said I was a genius.