[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.
Orson WellesIn the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.
Orson WellesThe essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
Orson WellesWhy 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.
Orson Wellesn Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles