Orson Welles

In addition to receiving the gift of a golden-toned speaking voice, Welles was very articulate in a way that is largely a trait of a bygone era. He also possesses razor wit and unforgiving bluntness. Here are many of his most memorable aphorisms: Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong. I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts. They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. On The War of The Worlds : “We couldn’t soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night, so