F for Fake (Verites et mensonges)

I think maybe we – collectively, as a species – need to come to terms with the idea that Orson Welles was the best person ever. He speaks with import but without arrogance. He's brilliant, he KNOWS he's brilliant, but he behaves as though you're on the same page. He…

esther

Perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being at a party and getting sucked into a conversation on a subject you’re unfamiliar with but the person speaking is so fascinating that you can’t tear yourself away, and you wouldn’t want to even if you could.

Alyssa Heflin

Convincing the audience your girlfriend is hot enough to horn-up Picasso into 22 portraits... ultimate flex.

Nick Newman

"Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life:…

Will Sloan

Nobody looks more appropriate in a cape than Orson Welles

brendan o'hare

Hannah 70 minutes into this movie leans over and whispers “Don’t think it has escaped my notice that the hour is up”

esther

orson pausing mid-story to order the steak au poivre proves that everything in this movie is real

eddie

In 1977 when I was living in Orson Welles' garage, he let me watch his personal print of F for Fake. Here is an excerpt from the review I published at the time: http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/2886/rd1h.jpg

laird

“Maybe a man’s name doesn’t matter all that much” Art isn’t real. Orson Wells isn’t real. You and I aren’t real. These words aren’t real. Real isn’t real. Nothing matters except the toothbrush waiting at home for you in it’s glass.

Iman Vellani