[on the critical plaudits earned by The Last Picture Show (1971)] I`m very gratified by the reception. It`s gone beyond my wildest dreams. To have your picture compared to Citizen Kane (1941) is incredible; certainly it isn`t true, but it`s nice to have i...
Peter Bogdanovich
I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl (1983), he said, `I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can`t. It`s the best film I`ve seen since Citizen Kane (1941)`.
Barbra Streisand
One looks at films differently when one is a director or a critic. For example, though I have always loved Citizen Kane (1941), I loved it in different ways at different stages of my career. When I saw it as a critic, I particularly admired the way the st...
Francois Truffaut
I just put it in at one of the rehearsals, a sort of interlude. It`s hard to explain -- I haven`t explained it to myself yet. It`s like vo-de-o-do, Crosby with boo-boo-boo, and Durante with cha-cha-cha. -- Helen Kane, explaining the creation of her "boop-...
Helen Kane
[on Orson Welles] For me he`s just a hoax. It`s empty. It`s not interesting. It`s dead. Citizen Kane (1941), which I have a copy of, is all the critics` darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it`s a total bore. Above all, the performa...
Ingmar Bergman
You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can`t take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.
Roger Ebert
Last year (Kane County) thought they may be late with the distribution of revenues. So we were very afraid that we`d have to go through the first part of June without any revenues.
Angela Cook
I`ve known Kane since he was a sophomore. So in the three years that I have known him, I have come to realize that there is something different about him. I don`t know if it`s his huge smile, his disarming smile, or his affinity for wearing pastel-colored...
David Grant
[On Citizen Kane (1941) being colorized] "Keep Ted Turner and his goddamned Crayolas away from my movie."
Orson Welles
