Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

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

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

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 director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.