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I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

Spencer Tracy

Originally I thought I'd go back to the H.G. Wells novel. But gradually I realized the beauty of the Howard Koch and Orson Welles version.

Todd Olson

Orson Welles was an actor, so he believed in it while he was doing it.

John Didonna

People just fell under his spell. He had that Orson Welles voice and this outsized personality that just stopped people in their tracks.

Phil Solomon

Orson Welles, of 'War of the Worlds' fame is long dead, but his spirit lives on. I hope that the shock and outrage generated by Matt Christians' stunt don't stifle his flair for creating ways and means to pierce the ennui of his jaded eighth-grade students.

Roger Lewis

[Then came Welles' 1941 masterpiece,] Citizen Kane, ... a high point in a lucky life.

Robert Wise

[Although Welles was later prone to insinuating that he had edited] Kane ... basically left the original assembly up to me.

Robert Wise

A lot of people say my work borrows from Hitchcock, but I think if I've stolen... of COURSE I've stolen, this is a parasitic medium... but if I'm parasitic of anyone it's Welles, and Michael Pal and Kazan... those are my guys. The James Whale stuff... I LOVE the old B&W movies, like classic paintings.

George A. Romero

Welles was an astute and worldly man about everything but his art. He couldn't afford to be otherwise.

Peter Bogdanovich