Orson Welles citations célèbres
François Truffaut, critique et cinéaste
À propos d'Orson Welles
Citations sur l'histoire de Orson Welles
D'Orson Welles
D'Orson Welles
André Bazin, critique
À propos d'Orson Welles
Nicholas Ray , cinéaste
À propos d'Orson Welles
“Citizen Kane est un grand film et restera dans l'histoire du cinéma. Pleins pouvoirs à Welles.”
Erich Von Stroheim, cinéaste
À propos d'Orson Welles
Orson Welles Citations
Jean Douchet, critique et cinéaste
À propos d'Orson Welles
D'Orson Welles
D'Orson Welles
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
À propos d'Orson Welles
Marcel Martin, critique
À propos d'Orson Welles
D'Orson Welles
“Selon moi, le cinéma a eu deux artistes fondamentaux: Orson Welles et Stanley Kubrick.”
Woody Allen
À propos d'Orson Welles
François Truffaut, critique et cinéaste
À propos d'Orson Welles
Sacha Guitry, dans un texte à propos de son film Si Versailles m'était conté
À propos d'Orson Welles
“Citizen Kane d'Orson Welles est au cinéma ce qu'est au théâtre la préface de Cromwell.”
Claude Briac, journaliste
À propos d'Orson Welles
André Bazin, critique
À propos d'Orson Welles
Joseph McBride, critique
À propos d'Orson Welles
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
À propos d'Orson Welles
“Les films de Welles sont tournés par un exhibitionniste et montés par un censeur.”
François Truffaut, critique et cinéaste
À propos d'Orson Welles
D'Orson Welles
“Mon meilleur film est Falstaff, ensuite Les Amberson.”
Falstaff est le complément, quarante ans plus tard, de ce Citizen Kane que j'ai tourné à l'aube de ma vie.
D'Orson Welles
Orson Welles: Citations en anglais
Quoted by Barbara Leaming, "Orson Welles: The Unfulfilled Promise". The New York Times, July 14, 1985.
“I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.”
in an interview with Bernie Braden in Paris (1960), viewable here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySBmuv_H_4s.
“I try to be a Christian…I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.”
Quoted in interview by Merv Griffin, from Frank Brady, Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles, Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, NY (1989), page 576.
“If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!”
From the published screenplay for "The Big Brass Ring" (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Santa Teresa Press, 1987)
Variante: If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
The Findus Foods "Frozen Peas" Session Out-Takes
Quoted in The Orson Welles Story.
“Men created civilization only to impress their girl friends”
Attributed to Welles in Ebony magazine (August 1977) https://books.google.com/books?id=08sDAAAAMBAJ&q=%22men+created+civilization%22#v=snippet&q=%22men%20created%20civilization%22&f=false.
Disputed quotes
The on-air statement he gave at the end of "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, October 30, 1938.
“It isn't worth it. No money is worth this… [walks out].”
The Findus Foods "Frozen Peas" Session Out-Takes
“Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.”
Orson Welles, "Race hate must be outlawed" (an editorial), Free World (July, 1944). http://www.wellesnet.com/orson-welles-race-hate-must-outlawed/
Source: [Higham, Charles, Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1985, 216, 0-312-31280-6, https://books.google.com/books?id=pJBlaIC-VG4C&lpg=PA216&dq=%22race%20hate%20isn't%20human%20nature%22&pg=PA216#v=onepage&q=%22race%20hate%20isn't%20human%20nature%22&f=false]
“An audience is not so much a complement to an actor's ego, as a challenge to his capacities.”
Welles, speaking in an episode of Orson Welles Sketch-book