Orson Welles World Quotations

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

I have no great message to the world.

[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.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

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.

If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.