“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”

“I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”

“Exactly, I repeated myself. I believe we do it all the time. We always take up certain elements again. How can it be avoided? An actor’s voice always has the same timbre and, consequently, he repeats himself. It is the same for a singer, a painter…There are always certain things that come back, for they are part of one’s personality, of one’s style. If these things didn’t come into play, a personality would be so complex that it would become impossible to identify it.It is not my intention to repeat myself, but in my work there should certainly be references to what I have done in the past. Say what you will, but The Trial is the best film I ever made…I have never been so happy as when I made this film.(talking about directing, The Trial (1962) - from Orson Welles: Interviews (book))”

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”

“I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them;once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.”

“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”

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