Orson Welles

"The most important thing is to remain curious."

"What we're really after is change, but we go about it in the wrong way."

"Success is the best revenge, but it's also the loneliest achievement."

"I have no beliefs. I'm interested in everything."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"A producer is someone who gets in the way."

"I think happiness is a trap. Once you think you're happy, you get scared."

"The most important thing in life is not what you have, but who you are."

"I have always been more interested in the future than in preserving the past."

"The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot."

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

"We're all afraid of the dark, but we forget that darkness is where the stars shine brightest."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that the very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Theater is a space where we can explore all the questions that plague humanity."

"Money is a wonderful thing, but you cannot give it to the bank and get your life back."

"The human animal cannot be at peace except when he knows truth."

"Age is not a number, it's a state of mind that you either accept or rebel against."

"When you reach a certain age, you realize that pretty much everything that happens is a cliché."

"I have come to believe that genius is an infinite capacity for taking life seriously."

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"

"The privilege of the great artist is that he is the last man to see his work objectively."

"Politics is the most popular spectator sport in America today."

"The artist should fear going sterile much more than he fears doing something bad."

"History is a vast early warning system."

"If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story."

"The most important thing in cinema is the camera work."

"Memory is the mother of muses; it gives birth to all arts."

"I operate on the theory that if you have a point to make, you have to make it without apology."