Welles was an astute and worldly man about everything but his art. He couldn't afford to be otherwise.

the whisper told most often.

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.

But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.