Orson Welles Quotes

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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream. - Orson Welles quote.
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
— Orson Welles

cinema

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. - Orson Welles quote.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
— Orson Welles

culture

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. - Orson Welles quote.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
— Orson Welles A Ribbon of Dreams: The Cinema of Orson Welles

film camera

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. - Orson Welles quote.
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
— Orson Welles

television

That's why I write in so many cigar-smoking heroes and villains who chomp their cigars. - Orson Welles quote.
That's why I write in so many cigar-smoking heroes and villains who chomp their cigars.
— Orson Welles

cigars Cigar

Let's face it.  Jazz has made some dangerous friends.  There's something of the opium eater in your jazz cultist. - Orson Welles quote.
Let's face it.  Jazz has made some dangerous friends.  There's something of the opium eater in your jazz cultist.
— Orson Welles Jazz Cavalcade: The Inside Story of Jazz

jazz

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soap companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. - Orson Welles quote.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soap companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
— Orson Welles Citizen Welles

Hollywood

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 quote.
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 hate television.  I hate it as much as peanuts.  But I can't stop eating peanuts.
— Orson Welles The New York Herald Tribune

television

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 Someone to Love

loneliness