In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
I drag my myth around with me.
As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'
Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.
The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
The basic and essential human is the woman.
I don't think any word can explain a man's life.
I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.
We will sell no wine before its time.
I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.
A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.
The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.
I don't take art as seriously as politics.
I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.
I'm a lurid character!
It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.
My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!
![[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.](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/george-orson-welles-114790.jpg)
[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.
You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.
Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.
