'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

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?

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

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.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.