Orson Welles

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

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.

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

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

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.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.