Here are a few assorted quotes from Orson Welles:

When you are down and out something always turns up--and it is usually the noses of your friends.

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

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 girl friends.

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

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

Judge not lest ye bore the audience.

You know me and titles--thing is about all I can come up with.

To me, magic begins and ends with the figure of the magician who asks the audience to believe that the lady is floating in the air.
In other words, to be eight years old for a minute.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

Of course, we all live with our past, but I try not to encourage it to misbehave.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. But he cannot afford not to be humble. Is that grammar?
It's logic, anyway.

You've got a hell of a lot going for you when you don't give a damn. Nowadays I do give a damn, and that puts me out of the
zen-archery range. I care a whole lot more than anybody guesses.

I have an unfortunate personality. I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back
of the theatre, you expect me to tell
you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

I know that faraway look which men get when they're peeing. And when you see that in a pool, you know, it's most unnerving.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work
for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not
choose.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Beauty is syndicated for its own sake.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

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

I think that Judas was the most passionately committed of the disciples and that he betrayed Jesus in order to fulfill the
prophesies. Well, that's my theory... I think he took the thirty pieces of silver to convince the Romans that it was a genuine
sellout.

Every good artist must be isolated. If not, there's something wrong.

The director is simply the audience. . . . His job is to preside over accidents.

The confusion in the movies is regretful because certainly it is the great art form of our century. It is just too bad that it isn't taken
more seriously because it is so very powerful and yet so very meaningless most of the time. When I tell that to people in
Hollywood they get mad at me and they say, "You're just arty."

and finally:

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.