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.

In this remark, Welles frames belief and disbelief as positions that can be held with conviction and intellectual seriousness, while treating agnosticism as an evasion of commitment. The contrast suggests he values decisiveness—choosing a worldview and living with its implications—over suspension of judgment. The line also reflects a theatrical, polemical temperament: it is less a philosophical argument against agnosticism than a provocation about character and will. Read charitably, it praises integrity and the courage to take a stand; read critically, it caricatures agnosticism, which for many is itself a considered stance grounded in epistemic humility.