People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

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.

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'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.