I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles

I started at the top and worked my way down.
Orson Welles

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
Orson Welles

I have an unfortunate personality.
Orson Welles

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

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