The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. – 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. – Orson Welles
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. – Orson Welles
A good artist should be isolated. If he isnt isolated, something is wrong. – Orson Welles
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. – James Thurber