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 always found it very sanitary to be broke.
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.
By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.
It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.