Orson Welles Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

  Orson Welles

  Happiness, Writing, Optimistic

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.221, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

  Orson Welles

  Writing, Directors, Actors

• . . . 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

• If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!

  Orson Welles

  Art, Writing, Want

• You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

  Orson Welles

  Writing, Ideas, Pins

• I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

  Orson Welles

  Reading, Writing, Cutting

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