Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
Orson Welles
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
Actor
Character Actor
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Librettist
Magician
Playwright
Radio Personality
Kenosha
Wisconsin
George Orson Welles
Experimentalist
Accomplishment
Nature
Much
Believe
More quotes by Orson Welles
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
Orson Welles
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
Orson Welles
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
Orson Welles
I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
Orson Welles
A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.
Orson Welles
I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
Orson Welles
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
Orson Welles
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
Orson Welles
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
Orson Welles
Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.
Orson Welles
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
Orson Welles
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Orson Welles
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
Orson Welles
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
Orson Welles
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles
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.
Orson Welles
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.
Orson Welles
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Orson Welles
