Quotes by Welles, Orson

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. >>

I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate pray >>

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm >>

Quotations about Cinema

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating advent >>

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the >>

The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing >>

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.

Welles, Orson