Orson Welles Quotes

Cinema is like dream.

I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

I've always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life.

When you go to the movies, you expect the movie to create a world that you can immerse yourself in, that you can step into. Sci-fi is a beautiful way of doing that.

Books are packaged dreams.

I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't matter what the film is about, or even whether it's a narrative or figurative film at all, it's an invitation to step into somebody else's shoes. Even if it's the filmmaker's shoes filming a landscape, you go into somebody else's shoes and you look out of their lens, you look out of their eyes and their imagination. That's what going to the pictures is all about.

I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you dream... allows you to dream in the dark. It's just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside the world of film.

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

My first love will always be movies.

Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.