black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

Orson Welles

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
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
ORSON WELLES

Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
ORSON WELLES

Artist Himself Time
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
ORSON WELLES

Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
ORSON WELLES

Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
ORSON WELLES

Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
ORSON WELLES

Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
ORSON WELLES

Director Kind Myself Writing
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
ORSON WELLES

End Forever Human Nature Original
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
ORSON WELLES

Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLES

Easy Job Police
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
ORSON WELLES

Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
ORSON WELLES

Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
ORSON WELLES

Ego Movie Myself Understand
Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
ORSON WELLES

Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
ORSON WELLES

Artist Director Discover Success Talent World

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Orson Welles Quotes