Orson Welles Quotes & Sayings
102 most famous Orson Welles quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American actor who passed away on 10 October, 1985.
“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
“Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
“In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.”
“The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.”
“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.”
“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.”
“The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.”
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
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