Orson Welles

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

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

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

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a filmmaker an army.

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

You know what the fellow said: In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love--they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

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