Orson Welles People Quotations

The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.

I don't want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.

[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

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

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out