"The first one will be Citizen Kane. Orson Welles."

"It’s truly astounding to consider that Orson Welles invented the postmodern-appropriationist-essay film, along with so much else."

"I’ve been obsessed with Orson Welles since high school, and this film was his white whale. What emerges in this newly finished version is like Welles himself-convoluted, full of ideas, and fascinating."

"So innovative and playful. Orson Welles makes it look like the easiest thing in the world, but this is such an amazing feat of engineering."

"Orson Welles is just too much of a genius. Illuminatingly, frustratingly good. The one-take shot over the first three minutes – heart in the ears!"

"I’m going to go to a guy who, being American, loved Spain; actually, he’s buried physically in the land where my father was born, in Ronda, Spain. His name is Orson Welles, and the movie is Touch of Evil."

"It’s been a while since I’ve seen this, but I remember not wanting it to end. It would’ve been an amazing thing to get really drunk with Orson Welles and just listen to him go. This movie probably comes pretty close."

"I defy anyone seeing this film for the first time not to gasp when Orson Welles suddenly appears in that doorway about a third of the way through. Directed by Carol Reed, screenplay by Graham Greene, this is top-drawer."

"I’ve seen this picture a zillion times but always find something new to wonder about. Graham Greene, Carol Reed, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Nazis, gangsters, Hitchcockian surrealism, innovative cinematography, a moody babe, Vienna, a zither for ear candy: it’s all here."