Orson Welles Quotes About Film

• Una película nunca es realmente buena a menos que la cámara sea un ojo en la cabeza de un poeta.

  Orson Welles

  Película, Ojo, Dirección de cine

  1958 "Un ruban de reves" en L'Express, 5 jun. Reimpreso en inglés en International Film Annual, nº 2.

• The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

  Orson Welles

  Artist, Essentials, Firsts

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Orson Welles

  Beautiful, Film, Very Beautiful

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

  Orson Welles

  Boys, Film, Train

• The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

  Orson Welles

  Jobs, Night, Yawning

• Más bien creo que el cine morirá. Fíjese en la energía que se está empleando para revivirlo: ayer era el color, hoy las tres dimensiones. No le doy cuarenta años más. Sea testigo del declive de la conversación. Sólo los irlandeses han seguido siendo unos conversadores incomparables, quizá porque el progreso técnico les ha pasado por encima.

  Orson Welles

  Pensamiento, Color, Años

• . . . 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.

  Orson Welles

  Writing, Film Critics, Impact

• I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

  Orson Welles

  Believe, Thinking, Vision

• Cada actor cree en su corazón todo lo malo que se publica sobre él.

  Orson Welles

  Fake People, Believe, Heart

• 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.

  Orson Welles

  Pensamiento, Hollywood, Mundo

• In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.

  Orson Welles

  Country, Fake, Special

• 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.

  Orson Welles

  Jobs, Hollywood, Blame

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

  Orson Welles

  Film, Colonists, Colony

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Orson Welles

  Would Be, World, Film

• 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.

  Orson Welles

  Believe, Lenses, Film

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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