Quotes About Citizen Kane

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

Director Steven Spielberg bought the only remaining Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane (1941) for $55,000 at auction at Sotheby's. He called the sled 'a symbolic emblem of quality in the film business'.

Citizen Kane still tops most lists as the best film ever made.

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.

I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.

The reason I think we hold films like 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Citizen Kane' in such high regard is those are movies that were amplified by their twists but were already bringing the goods.

I don't think 'Citizen Kane' stands more than one watch. Power corrupts. Who didn't know that?

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.