Welles

Famous quotes containing the word welles:

    I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.
    —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)

    The day after he’d met her, he told me about her. He said she was a cross-section of the American public.
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)