Quotes by Welles, Orson

A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the hea >>

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, indi >>

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we c >>

Quotations about Cinema

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. >>

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

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education. >>

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

Welles, Orson