The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

I have no great message to the world.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.