black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Orson Welles

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
ORSON WELLES

Age Appearance Permanent
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
ORSON WELLES

Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
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

Hate Learning Myself Woman
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
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
ORSON WELLES

Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
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
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 have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
ORSON WELLES

Art Best Interview Myself
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
ORSON WELLES

People Stupidity World Worst
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
ORSON WELLES

Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
I started at the top and worked my way down.
ORSON WELLES

Myself Start Way Work
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
ORSON WELLES

Hollywood Invention
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
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
ORSON WELLES

Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
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 director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
ORSON WELLES

Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity

I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Orson Welles Quotes