Orson Welles/return To Hollywood 1956%e2%80%931959

Famous quotes containing the words orson welles, welles, return and/or hollywood:

    “A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.”
    —Orson Welles (1915–1984)

    “Charles Foster Kane: You always said you wanted to live in a palace.
    Susan Alexander: Oh, a person could go crazy in this dump. Nobody to talk to, nobody to have any fun with.
    Charles Foster Kane: Susan.
    Susan Alexander: Forty-nine thousand acres of nothing but scenery and statues. I’m lonely.”
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    “The soul establishes itself.
    But how far can it swim out through the eyes
    And still return safely to its nest?”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.”
    —Bernardo Bertolucci (b. 1940)