Quotes By Orson Welles

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.