Welles

Famous quotes containing the word welles:

    Captain Hank Quinlan: C’mon, read my future for me.
    Tanya: You haven’t got any.
    Captain Hank Quinlan: Hmmm. Whadya mean?
    Tanya: Your future is all used up.
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.
    —Orson Welles (1915–1984)

    Thatcher: You’re too old to call me “Mr. Thatcher,” Charles.
    Charles Foster Kane: You’re too old to be called anything else. You were always too old.
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)