Orson Welles Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

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

  Orson Welles

  Movie, Eye, Film Directing

  1958 'Un ruban de reves' in L'Express, 5 Jun. Reprinted in English in 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

• I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, Color, Years

• . . . 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

• Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

  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

  Thinking, Hollywood, World

• 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

• 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

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