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George Orson Welles [ d͡ʒɔɹd͡ʒ ˈɔɹsən wɛlz] est un artiste américain, à la fois acteur, réalisateur, producteur et scénariste, mais également metteur en scène de théâtre, dessinateur, écrivain et illusionniste.

Il a été parfois crédité sous les noms de O. W. Jeeves ou G. O. Spelvin.

D'abord révélé à lui-même par le théâtre de Shakespeare, puis rendu célèbre par une émission de radio , Orson Welles devient une figure incontournable du cinéma avec son premier long-métrage, Citizen Kane, que l'ensemble des critiques considère comme le film le plus important du XXe siècle,.

Par la suite, son style cinématographique, mais aussi son jeu d'acteur, exercent une grande influence sur le cinéma des années 1950-1970, en particulier sur Stanley Kubrick. Artiste précoce et polymorphe, farouchement épris de son indépendance, amateur de cigares, de tauromachie et d'illusionnisme, Welles ne cesse tout au long de sa carrière de revenir au théâtre et à la littérature, aux grands textes classiques comme aux contemporains . Se défiant du système de production et entretenant sa propre légende d'effets à la fois spectaculaires et énigmatiques, il laisse de nombreux films inachevés. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. mai 1915 – 10. octobre 1985
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“Citizen Kane est un grand film et restera dans l'histoire du cinéma. Pleins pouvoirs à Welles.”

Erich Von Stroheim, cinéaste
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“Travailler pour la postérité est vulgaire.”

D'Orson Welles

“Raimu est le plus grand acteur du monde.”

D'Orson Welles

“Parti du sommet, désormais je décline.”

D'Orson Welles

“Selon moi, le cinéma a eu deux artistes fondamentaux: Orson Welles et Stanley Kubrick.”

Woody Allen
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“Citizen Kane d'Orson Welles est au cinéma ce qu'est au théâtre la préface de Cromwell.”

Claude Briac, journaliste
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“Chaque fois qu'Orson Welles a dû retrouver son identité, c'est vers Shakespeare qu'il s'est tourné.”

Joseph McBride, critique
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“Les films de Welles sont tournés par un exhibitionniste et montés par un censeur.”

François Truffaut, critique et cinéaste
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“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

“Thank you, Donald, for that well-meant but rather pedestrian introduction. Regarding yourself, I quote from the third part of Shakespeare's Henry VI, Act Two, Scene One. Richard speaks, "Were thy heart as hard as steel/ As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds/ I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine." To translate into your own idiom, Donald; you're a yo-yo. Now I direct my remarks to Dean Martin, who is being honored here tonight… for reasons that completely elude me. No, I'm not being fair to Dean because - this is true - in his way Dean, and I know him very well, has the soul of a poet. I'm told that in his most famous song Dean authored a lyric which is so romantic, so touching that it will be enjoyed by generations of lovers until the end of time. Let's share it together. [Opens a songsheet for Dean's "That's Amore" and reads in a monotone] "When the moon hits your eye/ Like a big pizza-pie/ That's amore" Now, that's what I call 'touching', Dean. It has all the romanticism of a Ty-D-Bol commercial. "When the world seems to shine/ Like you've had too much wine/ That's amore" What a profound thought. It could be inscribed forever on a cocktail napkin. Hey, there's more. "Tippy-tippy-tay/ Like a gay tarantella" Like a gay tarantella? Apparently, Dean has a 'side Dean' we know nothing about. "When the stars make you drool/ Just like a pasta fazool…. Scuzza me, but you see/ Back in old Napoli/ That's amore" No, Dean; that's infermo, Italian for "sickened". Now, lyrics like that - lyrics like that ought to be issued with a warning: a song like that is hazardous to your health. Ladies and gentlemen… [motions to Dean] you are looking at the end result!”

Speech given at a Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Viewable here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKR0i-51S4.

“My father once told me that the art of receiving a compliment is, of all things, the sign of a civilized man. He died soon afterwards, leaving my education in this important matter sadly incomplete; I'm only glad that, on this, the occasion of the rarest compliment he ever could have dreamed of, that he isn't here to see his son so publicly at a loss. In receiving a compliment, or in trying to, the words are all worn out by now. They're polluted by ham and corn. And, when you try to scratch around for some new ones, it's just an exercise in empty cleverness. What I feel this evening, is not very clever. it's the very opposite of emptiness. The corny old phrase is the only one I know to say it: my heart is full; with a full heart, with all of it, I thank you. This is Samuel Johnson, on the subject of what he calls contrarieties: "there are goods, so opposed that we cannot seize both, and, in trying, fail to seize either. Flatter not yourself, he says, with contrarieties. Of the blessings set before you, make your choice. No man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source, and from the mouth of the nile." For this business of contrarieties has to do with us. With you, who are paying me this compliment, and for me, who has strayed so far from this hometown of ours. Not that I am alone in this, or unique, I am never that; but there are a few of us left in this conglomerated world of us who still trudge stubbornly along this lonely rocky road; and this is in fact our contrariety. We don't move nearly as fast as our cousins on the freeway; we don't even get as much accomplished just as the family sized farm can't possibly raise as many crops or get as much profit as the agricultural factory of today. What we do come up with has no special right to call itself better it's just.. different. No if there's any excuse for us it all, it's that we're simply following the old American tradition of the maverick, and we are a vanishing breed. This honor I can only accept in the name of all the mavericks. And also, as a tribute to the generosity of all the rest of you; to the givers, to the ones with fixed addresses. A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way, or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy-o is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours. As a director, for instance, I pay myself out of my acting jobs. I use my own work to subsidize my work (in other words I'm crazy). But not crazy enough to pretend to be free. But it's a fact that many of the films you've seen tonight could never have been made otherwise. Or, if otherwise, well, they might have been better, but certainly they wouldn't have been mine. The truth is I don't believe that this great evening would ever have brightened my life if it wasn't for this: my own, particular, contrariety. Let us raise our cups, then, standing as some of us do on opposite ends of the river, to what really matters to us all: to our crazy, beloved profession, to the movies — to good movies, to every possible kind.”

Speech given upon his acceptance of the AFI Lifetime Achievement award. Viewable http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXJnxClGamA&list=HL1349840607&feature=mh_lolz

“Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons”

Near death request to filmmaker Henry Jaglom
[Lebo, Harlan, Citizen Kane:the fiftieth-anniversary album, Doubleday, 1990, 194, 978-0-385-41473-9, 2009-12-27]

“Just breathe at the end of the line or on the punctuation. If you lose that, and lose the iambic pentameter, you'll lose all the sense of what you're saying. And if you do breathe, you'll find that Shakespeare's verse is like a surfboard.”

Keith Baxter interviewed by Geoff Andrew for the British Film Institute (on the only piece of direction Welles ever gave him) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qON_f32HQDk

“As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.”

Mitry, Jean; King, Christopher. The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema (1999). Indiana University Press. [ISBN 0-253-21377-0], p. 176.

“This theatre is your theatre. You are responsible for its creation and its progress.”

the bottom of an original program for the 1936 WPA presentation of Voodoo MacBeth http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/ftsmth00.html|at.

“A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.”

Quoted by Peter Bogdanovich, from the DVD audio commentary on The Lady from Shanghai (1947).

“I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.”

Quoted by Richard Meryman in Mank: The Wit, World, and Life of Herman Mankiewicz. New York: Morrow, 1978, page 255.

“We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes…”

<I>(pauses, and continues with a note of disgust in his voice)</I> This is a lot of <I>shit</I>, you know that! You want one more? One more on the beef?
The Findus Foods "Frozen Peas" Session Out-Takes

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