Orson Welles

"In the middle of the night, it's hard to say."

"I would say that the most important thing is not to get discouraged."

"The road to hell is paved with unwatched home videos."

"Young people should be allowed to have their immaturity."

"I'm not sure I believe in the democratic process."

"The word to me was always magic."

"I don't think of my films as being about ideas, but rather about people."

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat."

"Another glass of wine would be bad."

"The cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."

"I believe in the future because of the children."

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone."

"I have the terrible feeling on the night before I start a new film that I am absolutely incompetent."

"I think there are unlimited possibilities in every area of human endeavor."

"Show me a man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore."

"The simplest things are sometimes the most extraordinary."

"I want to die at a very, very old age."

"Money is the best answer to every question."

"The best thing commercially, which it wasn't, was the best thing artistically."

"All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives."

"I started at the top and worked my way down."

"I've never wanted to be famous; I've wanted to be great."

"A typewriter needs paper, a painter needs canvas, but a filmmaker needs dreams."

"I would like to think of myself as a citizen of the world."

"To know them is to love them."

"I don't know why people are surprised by the things I say."

"The most powerful thing in the world is an idea whose time has come."

"I think we're a planet of people and we're capable of anything."

"Sometimes people write novels and they just know there's going to be some fact that get misrepresented inevitably."

"I made my name with the theater in the twenties."