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

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

    “Of course, killing you is killing myself. It’s the same thing. But, you know, I’m pretty tired of both of us.”
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    “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 (1915–1984)

    “East and west on fields forgotten
    Bleach the bones of comrades slain,
    Lovely lads and dead and rotten;
    None that go return again.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.”
    —Arthur Kroker (b. 1945)