black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Country Food Yourself
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
ORSON WELLES

Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
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’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
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
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
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
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
ORSON WELLES

Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
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 don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLES

Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
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
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
ORSON WELLES

Camera Record World
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
ORSON WELLES

Existence Father Glory God
Criticism is the essence of creation.
ORSON WELLES

Creation Criticism One Liner
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
ORSON WELLES

Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Orson Welles Quotes