I like reflections — as long as they aren’t mine.
— Orson Welles

The Lady from Shanghai is far from a good film.
— David Thomson

Welles made The Lady from Shanghai to show Hollywood that he was capable of making an ordinary film, but he demonstrated the reverse, not least to himself.
— François Truffaut

Michael Peck reflects on the making of The Lady of Shanghai in “A Bright, Guilty World: The Biography of a Film.”