Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

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?

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.