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
Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.
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.
Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.
I drag my myth around with me.
Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle.
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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.
Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''
One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.