Frases de Orson Welles

“Tener un final feliz depende, por supuesto, de donde quieras que acabe tu historia.”

“Muchas personas son demasiado educadas para no hablar con la boca llena, pero no se preocupan de hacerlo con la cabeza vacía.”

“Lo peor es cuando has terminado un capítulo y la máquina de escribir no aplaude.”

“Me casé para vivir juntos, pero ninguno se lo tomó muy en serio.”

“Crea tu propio estilo visual. Hazlo único para ti mismo e identificable para los demás.”

“Mire Señor Bernstein. Si no hubiese sido tan rico, hubiera llegado a ser un gran hombre.”

“Nuestros trabajos en piedra, en pintura, en impreso están a salvo -algunas de ellas por unas pocas décadas, o uno o dos milenios- pero finalmente todo deberá caer en la guerra o desaparecer en la final y universal ceniza. Los triunfos y los fraudes, los tesoros y las falsificaciones. Es un hecho de la vida. Vamos a morir. "Se de buen corazón", grita el artista muerto desde el pasado vivo, "nuestras canciones serán todas silenciadas, ¿pero qué importa?, sigue cantando.”

“Nuestros trabajos en piedra, en pintura, en impreso están a salvo -algunas de ellas por unas pocas décadas, o uno o dos milenios- pero finalmente todo deberá caer en la guerra o desaparecer en la final y universal ceniza.”

“El escritor necesita una pluma, el pintor un pincel, el cineasta todo un ejército.”

“Es imposible hacer una buena película sin una cámara que sea como un ojo en el corazón de un poeta.”

“Lo primero que oí cuando aún estaba en la cuna fue la palabra genio murmurada en mi oído. ¡Por eso no se me ocurrió pensar que lo era hasta que fui un hombre adulto!”

“Tener o no un final feliz depende de dónde decidas detener la narración de la historia”

“No rezo porque no quiero aburrir a Dios”

“En cuanto a mi estilo, para mi visión del cine, la edición no es simplemente un aspecto; Es el aspecto.”

“El enemigo del arte es la ausencia de limitaciones.”

“No tomo el arte tan en serio como la política.”

“In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.”

“I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.”

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”

“There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women…”

“I don't take art as seriously as politics.”

“I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts. To quote from my script for The Dreamers, never expect justice in the world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice — people get good luck or bad luck.”

“I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.”

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”

“I try to be a Christian…I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.”

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”

“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.”

“If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!”

“I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”

“I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”

“You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.”

“I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”

“A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.”

“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”

“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.”

“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”

“I don't think any word can explain a man's life.”

“What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other”

“But you can't emphasize "beef", that's like his wanting me to emphasize "in" before "July"! Come on, fellows, you're losing your heads! I wouldn't direct any living actor like this in Shakespeare! The way you do this, it's impossible!”

“The people who’ve done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] — who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don’t succeed — people who’ve had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever — are the people who didn’t want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn’t want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.”

“Men created civilization only to impress their girl friends”

“This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen, out of character, to assure you that The War of the Worlds has no further significance than as the holiday offering it was intended to be; The Mercury Theatre's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying "Boo!" Starting now, we couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night, so we did the next best thing. We annihilated the world before your very ears and utterly destroyed the CBS. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn't mean it, and that both institutions are still open for business. So goodbye everybody, and remember please for the next day or so the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian, it's Halloween.”

“It isn't worth it. No money is worth this… [walks out].”

“Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.”

“An audience is not so much a complement to an actor's ego, as a challenge to his capacities.”