black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Orson Welles

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
ORSON WELLES

Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
ORSON WELLES

Choice Greatness Hate Love Myself People Respect
I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
ORSON WELLES

Drive Fast Myself Scare
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
ORSON WELLES

Accident Director Job Series
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
ORSON WELLES

Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
ORSON WELLES

Choice Myself People
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
ORSON WELLES

Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
ORSON WELLES

Boredom God Prayer
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
ORSON WELLES

People Stupidity World Worst
Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
ORSON WELLES

Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
ORSON WELLES

Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
ORSON WELLES

Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
ORSON WELLES

Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
ORSON WELLES

Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
ORSON WELLES

Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
ORSON WELLES

Man Movie Production Train

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Orson Welles Quotes