Orson Welles Film Quotations

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first started writing for the cinema. . . . Now I feel that only the literary mind can help the movies out of that cul de sac into which they have been driven by mere technicians and artificers.

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'

A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.