Orson Welles Quotes: Timeless Wisdom & Vision

You have to have doubts. Only fools have absolute self-confidence.

Any career in the artistic world is a rollercoaster, and many successes are the result of a combination of several happy circumstances. But there must be something more to it as well.

It is impossible to make a good film without a camera that is like an eye on the heart of a poet.

As for my films, I believe they are not so much based on searching as on research. If we are looking for something, the labyrinth is the best place for investigation.”

We must not be rude, we must be pests.

Many people are well-mannered enough not to talk with their mouths full, but they do not care to do so with their heads empty.

If it were not for women, man would still be crouching in a cave eating raw meat. We only built civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

The only true thing is the dream.

I started at the top and worked hard until I got to the bottom.

Incompetence drives me completely out of my mind. I never repeat anything and I want everything yesterday.

One must have doubts. Only stupid people have absolute confidence in themselves.

Any career in the artistic world is a roller coaster, and many successes result from the combination of several happy circumstances. But there must be something more too.

We are born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. Only through love and friendship can we create the illusion, for a moment, of that we are not alone.

Even when there was no hope, I always tried to do my best.

When the gods want to punish us, they answer our prayers.

I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts.

What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.

True or false, our works are doomed to disappear. What does the author’s name mean, then?

I am a shadowy figure.

I am an experimentalist by nature. I do not believe much in feats.

I have had Hollywood in the palm of my hand and on my back.

I would not prohibit anything. I am quite against censorship of any kind.

I work too much and live too dangerously for my life to be pleasant.

I consider women the most important thing in the world, but I have not the slightest idea of ​​what is important to a woman. I have never pretended to understand women.

A film is never a report about life. A film is a dream. A dream may be vulgar and formless; it is perhaps a nightmare. But a dream is never a lie.

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Carla Marinho Leal

Writer, traveler and above all, curious about many subjects. She has studied cinema since 2002 and is a Specialist in Cinematographic Studies from UNICAP. Founder of the blog Purviance and the website Cinemaclássico. She loves Charles Chaplin, Raj Kapoor and constantly browses films from all over the world.

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