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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

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
I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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Ego Movie Myself Understand
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship Woman
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
ORSON WELLES

Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
ORSON WELLES

Country Food Yourself
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
ORSON WELLES

Life Live Money Myself Run Try
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
ORSON WELLES

Boredom Emotion Terrorism
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
ORSON WELLES

Age Appearance Permanent
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
ORSON WELLES

Director Kind Myself Writing
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
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
Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
ORSON WELLES

Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
ORSON WELLES

Age Old Sick Yourself

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.

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