What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

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

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

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

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

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?