Orson Welles Talks About Making 'Citizen Kane' | The Dick Cavett Show

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Orson Welles discusses making Citizen Kane as his first feature and tells Dick that movie making can be learnt in a day and a half.
Date aired - May 14, 1970 - Orson Welles
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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@OldDirtyRobot 5 лет назад

"Ignorance, there's no authority in the world like it." 1:09

@tchrisou812 5 лет назад

great quote

@tchrisou812 5 лет назад

@ClandestineOstrich lol

@sargondp69 5 лет назад

The applications of this line are endless.

@Matlockization 5 лет назад

Its because you haven't discovered or weren't told what can't be done yet.

@walkers198 5 лет назад

Ain’t that the truth..

@mlb5525 5 лет назад

Orson Welles what a genuine person-self deprecating, humorous and intelligent.

@ElvarMasson 3 года назад

Was.

@charleskerry845 3 года назад

My father was a waiter that worked in a high class restaurant and Orson Wells comes in . A waiter who was a huge fan of Orson Wells, he begged another waiter to be allowed to serve Orson Wells since it was not his station where the table was at. The waiter served him like a king with the best service anybody could get . Orson wells leaves a very poor tip to waiter . The waited felt disappointed and offended, and asked Orson Wells if he did anything wrong? Orson Wells took out a 100 dollar bill and said "is this what you want"? Orson Wells burnt 100 dollar bill in front of a waiter who by the way was a huge fan of Orson Wells. True story ,my father along with others witnessed it.

@robertprewitt776 2 года назад

He was a drunk, so yeah really human.

@vmooreg 2 года назад

Man?

@ellenmarch3095 Год назад

Not even when he's sober. Is OP a bot? The being offended at being called first name vs calling porter sir. "You and I both know it takes about a day and a half" (to learn "everything" about making movies). 1:35 in and he's 2 for 2 in narcissistic sentences, and ones so severe I'm not listening to anything else. "Self-deprecating" he is not. Run.

@russellcampbell9198 4 года назад

Orson always seemed to be enjoying himself. He was life personified.

@Meridian-lk2fo 3 года назад

Except when he was making a frozen peas commercial

@55249768 2 года назад

@@Meridian-lk2fo he made those commercials in order to make money to finish his unfinished projects. I bet he was enjoying himself

@CoolGobyFish 2 года назад

@@55249768 oh the French, they always doblabuuuuu uhhhhhh

@andymill32 Год назад

Mr. Welles to you!

@jec1ny 5 лет назад

Ah the golden age of television... when cigar smoke periodically obscures the guy your trying to interview.

@DBEdwards 2 года назад

I believe it was JACK LEMMON puffing the cigar

@tp8773 5 лет назад

"Whenever I see a cop I know I did it"

@darkerufo 2 месяца назад

4:14 that was hilarious - I think we can all relate when a cop pulls behind us in traffic

@JohnTurner678 5 лет назад

I love how these old school classy people used to call them "pictures" instead of movies. Classy

@redline1420 4 года назад

Well yeah. That's what a roll of film is, "moving pictures".

@JohnTurner678 4 года назад

reuben yebra well I’m British so I call them films too just talking in the context of these Americans 😅

@craigcrawford6595 4 года назад

Because it is the short form of moving pictures...

@FormulaVase-kp3dc 4 года назад

You are uneducated. Have you ever heard of motion pictures, or moving pictures?

@ArthurKnight1899 4 года назад

Is this sarcasm??

@philipatoz 5 лет назад

What Cavett did, that makes the rest of talk show hosts since look like complete morons, is that he respected the audience's intelligence. Or at least he asked questions that he thought both his guests and the more intelligent viewers tuning in would find interesting. There is simply a limit as to where idiotic drivel and a few moments of humor can go beyond, and most talk shows dwell there almost entirely!

@mattinthehat3 5 лет назад

Very true but you also have to take into account the caliber of his guest. They were true actors/actresses's, entertainers etc. Way more deep and intelligent than the crop of talent today. Of course that's just my opinion. Still though your comment/observation is dead on. Thank you.

@paulpeterson4216 5 лет назад

I used to watch Cavett's talk show, though I always watched Carson's monologue before switching over. Of course, you are correct about Cavett's style, but he could do that because there was no way to compete with Johnny Carson for audience share, so Cavett's niche was probably about as big a chunk of audience that anything up against The Tonight Show could have gotten. Of course he still got cancelled.

@IgnorancEnArrogance 5 лет назад

I totally agree. It baffles me when I read other comments in other interviews where that trash him for being supercilious. So many people have this pathetic notion that when you ask any kind of deep question to someone in a certain way you are automatically insinuating their stupidity and asserting your dominance.

@damienholland8103 5 лет назад

That's exactly what I think every time I watch one of these old videos of him interviewing people. We have such fucking morons for talk show hosts / content these days.

@delfin7461 5 лет назад

Dick Cavett was one of the best. Bob Costas had a great show in the 80s/90s he was very much of the same style. Now I think the best host in the US is Trevor Noah, he almost always asks great questions. Seth Meyers isn't bad. Henry Rollins had a show for a while that was really interesting.

@dinahleeloo 5 лет назад

One wouldn’t expect someone as regal as Orson Welles to be funny. I enjoyed him immensely. “I’ve never seen any of my pictures because I like to sit here and think how good it must have been.” What a real, endearing man.

@John_13_35 3 года назад

After quoting Shakespeare from Macbeth (if memory serves) to Don Rickels at the roast of Dean Martin, Welles said "to put it in an idiom you're more familiar with Don, you're a yo-yo." Laughed my ass off....

@irwinmiller8684 3 года назад

The contribution of Gregg Toland, the premier cinematographer, to Welles' Citizen Kane is inestimable. His innovations with respect to the use of lighting and shadows and deep focus was revolutionary and set the standards for generations of filmmakers to come. Welles was actually 25 when he collaborated with Herman Mankiewicz and Toland on Kane. It was the only time that he had complete creative control as a director on a film.

@jupiterlegrand4817 11 месяцев назад

Welles put it precisely: Gregg Toland was the greatest cameraman who ever lived. Seems fitting that he shot the greatest movie that will ever be made.

@cothrige 5 лет назад

What a simply astounding interview. Everything in it is incredible. Welles' intelligence and wit, Cavett's deft touch and Lemmon's classy quiet observation. Simply brilliant clip.

@RollingOrmond 5 лет назад

Nice of him to dispel the myths of the director and give props to all the people actually involved including the cinematographer. So many directors today love to soak up the glory as if everything were their doing (love the stories about his two years making Othello: back of head shots for unavailable actors, murder in the steam bath because they couldn't afford wardrobe, etc.)

@Dominion-1 5 лет назад

Cigars, cigaretts and interviews....Ahh the 70's.

@Revelwoodie 4 года назад

It was also the last decade of the original cocktail party scene. People still have cocktail parties, but it's not the same.

@blahchop 5 лет назад

I never realized welles was such a comedian. lol

@NazarovVv 5 лет назад

Then you haven't seen citizen Kane. That's brilliance of it for me. It told a dramatic story not relying on strictly dramatic tropes. He used comedy, he used music, he damn right made the finest motion picture ever made.

@BigMikeMcBastard 5 лет назад

Intelligence and humour go hand-in-hand. The good comedians/comedy writers are very often people who could have done basically anything career-wise if they had the inclination.

@Pandemonis 5 лет назад

during the filming of Touch of Evil, he would go to Hollywood parties with full make up still on.... (And people were like "Oh my God, Orson, you look great") xD

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 4 года назад

I think the term is “raconteur”. Invite him to dinner or buy him a drink, and he will regale you with stories until you forget everything else until you see the sunrise brightening the sky and wonder where the time went.

@fede018 4 года назад

He had a great sense of humor.

@THE-HammerMan 5 лет назад

Now HERE'S what you want to make note of... The great Jack Lemmon listens to Welles without a peep. I've seen Lemmon many times on shows and he's always respectful of other guests, but usually puts in some comments here and there. THAT is the utmost compliment by Jack, and shows exactly how much Orson Welles was admired and his genius respected. Jack didn't want to miss a word Orson might have to say on anything! BTW: Orson displays here how funny he was; very intelligent and a quick wit. PPS: Lemmon does add(talk) during the Welles segment; this is only part of the show.

@tomservo5007 5 лет назад

I'm not sure it was from respect. Have you heard Welles' studio outtakes from a frozen peas radio commercial? I think Jack feared the tongue whipping he would get from Mr. Welles.

@THE-HammerMan 5 лет назад

@@tomservo5007 No. It's respect. Even earlier than this Jack Lemmon had earned respect himself- and Welles no doubt respected and admired Lemmon as one of the few who truly deserved it from him; one of the very few!

@civlyzed 5 лет назад

@@tomservo5007 Full of country goodness and green pea-ness!

@dave29123 4 года назад

Welles sounds to me like a good storyteller. It's hard to interrupt a good storyteller once they're on a roll.

@THE-HammerMan 4 года назад

@@dave29123 You're right... but I would not interrupt Orson Welles if he was mumbling between drinks or dozing!

@mattinthehat3 5 лет назад

My God! To this day I cannot believe how this man (Welles) could never cease to amaze and astound me with his brilliance. He truly was one of a kind.

@TheVetusMores 5 лет назад

The guy makes one of the greatest films of all time, and is so humble about it. That's what truly impresses. I mean, he brushes it off as though it were sheer luck! Well, that it may be, but forgive me if I have a very difficult time believing that! _Citizen Kane_ was the work of utter genius. But there he is, Orson swearing that it is so. Who are we to question him? Never the like shall we see again, sadly ...

@mattinthehat3 3 года назад

@@TheVetusMores 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@jupiterlegrand4817 5 лет назад

Orson Welles was the greatest talent the movies/stage/radio ever had. Forget Dos Equis, HE is the most interesting man in the world!

@soulballet 5 лет назад

luv the smoke wafting into frame from jack's ciggy. golden days of tv

@LardGreystoke 5 лет назад

And emphysema.

@cancel1913 5 лет назад

Freedom!!!

@23bobjr 5 лет назад

golden days of poisoning everyone

@thebeststooge 5 лет назад

The golden days before assholes thought they had to right to ban it everywhere EVEN in places the owners didn't want it to be banned in. Don't like smoke? The fucking don't go to the place with smoke and for the record I don't smoke so wouldn't go. The days before the pussy Antifa, Soy Boys, and PC/SJW ways were FANTASTIC.

@ferociousgumby 5 лет назад

Yikes

@kevinoconnor4102 2 года назад

When he was young he use to stay in the Aran Islands which is off the Irish Coast. My grandmother worked in the bed and breakfast rhat he stayed in and would make him his breakfast in the morning and his dinner in the evenings as well as cleaning his room. They developed a great friendship and every Christmas he would send her a card. He once offered to fly her and her husband to America and stay in his home but she couldn't as granddad was a light house keeper and had to stay. One summer Orson brought Alfred Hitchcock with him who my grandmother said was intensely rude and arrogant. Orson apologised to her for Alfred's behaviour.

@Saff999. 3 месяца назад

Terrific anecdote. ThanX for posting this. A great insight into Orson Welles’ generosity of Spirit.

@MapleSyrupPoet 7 дней назад

Nice comment 😊

@leamanc 5 лет назад

His next one, the one he was getting ready to work on, The Other Side of the Wind, did turn out to be a great one. It would have been the Kane of the 1970s, if it hadn’t came out in 2018.

@Tom_Van_Zandt 5 лет назад

Shit, I forgot that was being released. I need to watch that.

@leamanc 5 лет назад

AquaDump Entertainment Yes you do, it’s up there with Kane, Ambersons, and Touch of Evil.

@kamuelalee 5 лет назад

I need to watch that too. Think Netflix was showing it. Touch of Evil, Mr. Arkadin, and of course Citizen K are my favorite Orson Welles' flicks. Innovative and cool, redefined film with each movie.

@Tom_Van_Zandt 5 лет назад

@@leamanc That's some awfully high praise.

@leamanc 5 лет назад

AquaDump Entertainment It is high praise, but it’s justified. TOSOTW is dense and complex, but goes down smooth and easy, just like Orson’s best.

@TubenIt83 5 лет назад

Orson Welles argued that John Ford's "Stagecoach" (1939) was a perfect textbook of filmmaking and claimed to have watched the film more than forty times in preparation for the making of "Citizen Kane" (1941).

@peaceandlove544 4 года назад

The student surpassed the master

@legend9948 4 года назад

Welles was once asked who in his opinion were the top three greatest filmmakers in history.....His answer John Ford, John Ford and John Ford

@louieandtommysdiscountedit3177 4 года назад

I've always loved this fact. Really goes to show the impact Ford had on the industry.

@TubenIt83 4 года назад

Welles made a great film and some good ones. Ford made several great films.

@KungaMatata 4 года назад

TubenIt83 The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight and F for Fake are great.

@XthegreatwhyX 5 лет назад

Orson Wells: "A movie can't be changed" Gorge Lucas: "Hold my beer"

@kourii 5 лет назад

'Gorge'? more like 'Engorged Lucas'

@bradmodd7856 5 лет назад

Citizen Kane: The Director's Cut

@jondunmore4268 5 лет назад

Gorge Lucas and Gorge Welles - both men who ate themselves to death.

@2apocalypsex 5 лет назад

@@bradmodd7856 Don't you Mean Citizen Kane: Special Edition

@jennifersman7990 3 года назад

Francis Ford Coppola-“Hold mine first”

@bwbethel 4 года назад

A true genius and absolute gentleman. And such a wonderful storyteller -- I could listen to him all day long!

@wyattrussell7496 5 лет назад

He’s the only filmmaker to go after Hearst. Fun fact: Hearst is the reason journalism is how it is today. Pulitzer was the newspaper guy with integrity, now he’s an award for books that don’t sell. Hearst would go on to help start the drug war with DuPont by lobbying to have Harry Anslinger become the first drug czar. Which then started the reefer madness propaganda. There’s a sequel to citizen kane. The people have to make it.

@poposterous236 5 лет назад

Goddamn son that is lit. I would love to watch that movie.

@MrPlooky 5 лет назад

"yellow journalism" historians call it..

@kosmossounds9530 5 лет назад

lets get funding

@michaelcelani8325 4 года назад

Wyatt ...You are a Smart Guy...thaks for pointing that out...and So True !

@michaelcelani8325 4 года назад

Wyatt...films can not fix things...our society has made too many mistakes...just like Rita Hayworth says at the end of Lady From Shainghi..

@seang3019 4 года назад

Dick Cavett! What a legend for getting all of these interviews.

@capitanfuturo594 2 года назад

OW was a genius and Dick Cavett is the best interviewer in the history of American TV.

@sargondp69 5 лет назад

'Ignorance. There's no authority in the world like it.' In the next sentence, 'You know technically that the whole bag of movies can be learned in about a day and a half.' Welles, the honest, rules on BS everyone else gives you to make themselves more glorious. But Welles was a geneous!

@artmoss6889 5 лет назад

Yes, the basic elements of film can be summarized in a day and a half, but only people as talented as Welles as can take that summary and and run with it. The truly gifted quickly grasp the foundational principles of a discipline and immediately put it to work in surprising and effective ways.

@Syklonus 5 лет назад

Fucking hell! Welles is an absolutely on point comedian, but he weaves some nuggets of pure wisdom into it as well. No wonder he was so great.

@TheAdventurer1 3 года назад

Way to go Orson, you showed your class, wit and genius in this old interview. Wish we had more like you today making films.

@CarolineChiasson 5 лет назад

I could listen to Orson talk for years 💙

@doninvictoria 5 лет назад

Jack Lemmon is having the time of his life

@samuelmorse784 Год назад

Jack Lemmon is an acting legend in his own right very cool to see his reaction.

@midnightmachinist8739 3 года назад

Orson Welles seems like he'd always be the life of the party. Good storyteller.

@carlculpepper4828 2 года назад

Am I the only person that noticed that someone tried to "Me Too" Orson ???

@MargauxKim_13 5 лет назад

Ignorance! There's no authority in the world like it! That's brilliant.

5 лет назад

Smokin a cigar on TV, during an interview. Bygone days...

@drstew1 3 года назад

The absolute one and Only Orsen Wells. His F for Fake is also remarkable. Orsen Wells R.I.P

@jean-marieboucherit4716 5 лет назад

This is a story told by W Churchill when meeting people he didn’t know: W: Hello...? Person: Mr Robertson W: No, it’s just your Christian name I couldn’t remember

@xcalabur18 5 лет назад

Interviewers can all take a lesson from Cavett. He asks perfect follow-up questions that really bring out the details of the story a guest is trying to tell. But then he does the most important thing that an interviewer can do, and one that many modern hosts have not learned: he shuts up and listens.

@sherv.h 4 года назад

"because i like to sit here and think how good it was." where can i learn to be this charming and sharp.

@edvinjesse 3 года назад

That line came so fast you'd almost think it was scripted. He was really quick-witted!

@ralphfurley123 5 лет назад

What I know of Mr. Welles is that he was an actor and a director!!! Nothing more!!! But this interview and a couple others that I’ve seen on RU-vid shows an incredibly interesting man!!! One which I really need to read more about!!! ☮️🖖🏽

@JustWasted3HoursHere 5 лет назад

There's a movie on Netflix right now about Orson trying to complete his last movie before he died, called "They'll Love Me When I'm Dead" about the trials and tribulations of making "The Other Side of the Wind". If you like Orson Wells, you will enjoy it.

@ralphfurley123 5 лет назад

JustWasted3HoursHere Much thanks!!! I look forward to watching it!!! ☮️🖖🏽

@JustWasted3HoursHere 5 лет назад

@@ralphfurley123 Have fun!

@napoliansolo7865 4 года назад

I've been thinking the same thing. But "I never met Stalin" for me is my favorite quote.

@jerryrichardson2799 4 года назад

Welles could draw, paint, write, read and play music. He was a Renaissance man.

@shanke300 5 лет назад

Orson Well is A giant in the film world. Such brilliant mind.

@funkyalfonso 5 лет назад

Orson Welles was a class act. Only he lived his life backwards. Clearly as a practical joke.

@Lazarus1095 5 лет назад

Man, Welles's impression of the Brain is uncanny!

@DontTouchMyCroissant 3 года назад

Down to the saggy cheeks!

@Lazarus1095 3 года назад

@@tonyseyffer8254 You've never seen him bodyslam the buffet table!

@MrJackWorse 5 лет назад

one day, maybe when i'm grown up i want to be just as half as cool as orson welles.

@jupiterlegrand4817 5 лет назад

Me too. Sadly, that will never happen for either of us. There is cool, then there is Orson cool. Sigh...

@michaelcelani8325 4 года назад

He was more messed up than either of you guys!...He had one wife in Arizona and another in L.A. Driving back and forth...neither wife knew about the other...makes life Messy...especially when you are older.

@jerryrichardson2799 Год назад

Welles was one of those people who seemed to know everyone, reminds me of Bucky Fuller who you could say the same thing about.

@PhillipRottingham 5 лет назад

Maybe it's because I've been watching a lot of 'Pink and the Brain' clips recently but I like to imagine everything he's saying being said by a big-headed mouse.

@mandarkastronomonov2962 5 лет назад

Bruh, I was searching through the comments to see if anyone else thought the same thing!!!

@jdmathys1 Год назад

This dude was friends with Winston Churchill. That’s so crazy.

@alexmidence274 4 года назад

I’ve been watching a lot of the interviews on this channel for the last month or so now and there is one thing that stands out in sharp relief to me. Back then, actors and hosts were not trying to get shock value out of the content. The closest they got was innuendo and tongue in cheek. That was it. We had to figure out what they meant. They were not trying to surprise people and shock them with outrageous behavior so much. It was a classier time. I honestly think that the shock factor has now grown stale. I can’t imagine 20 or 40 years in the future, our children and grandchildren Watching the interviews from our time and remarking on how classy and how amazing they were. I think the pendulum is swinging in the other direction. Because of that, I think they’ll probably be ashamed of how we behaved in our era. The whole shock thing started when I was young. This would’ve been in The late 80s and 90s. It reached its peak after 2000. Now, I think people are ready for a return to classier talk show hosts and classier guests. We want to smile instead of gasp.

@shummythemoney 5 лет назад

Anyone else notice how Mark Hamill today sounds a bit like Mr. Welles?

@steveconn 5 лет назад

About the only thing they have in common to say the least lol

@Yusuke_Denton 5 лет назад

He's getting as chubby too.

@rusemode 5 лет назад

MUAAHAAAAA the french champagne

@BirbarianHomeGuard 5 лет назад

It’s called being being an old smoker. Hamil loves his cigs.

@TheSuperQuail 4 года назад

@@BirbarianHomeGuard He does? I guess that explains the joker voice.

@nemo227 3 года назад

Sometimes, such as this time, we get a different insight to a person during an interview. I think I would have enjoyed buying a glass of wine for Orson Welles and talking with him. I had such a pleasure with a famous actor in 1975.

@paulmaloney2383 2 года назад

This is the first time I seen an interview of Orson Welles, he is quite witty with a engaging personality

@donaldmatthew4980 3 года назад

One of the very few gentleman,who had a grasp of the English language, such eloquence.

@Dana-wq5tp 3 года назад

Which makes today's world even more pathetic and sad. The English language as we know it is on it's way out to be replaced by utter idiocy and outright illiteracy. All you have to do is follow social media for a day and realize the magnitude of it.

@brutaltoast122 3 года назад

Orson spent a lot of time extolling the virtues of other people he had worked with instead of toting his own talent. Take his point about working with the greatest Cameraman in the world was the key to his success. Orson was such a fantastic speaker.

@killroyhightower5095 3 года назад

What a class act. The humour, the brains, the sheer superiority through experience and yet self deprecating. A gentleman through and through. See how Jack Lemmon in the back, just sitting back in admiration and not chiming in needlessly. This is what we've lost over the years.

@avengemybreath3084 Год назад

We’ve lost nearly everything

@robatsea2009 5 лет назад

For the record the movie title in question is "Citizen Kane", not "Cane".

@RadicalCaveman 5 лет назад

Yes, and this interview was of course on the Dick Kavett Show.

@lanceuppercut2013 5 лет назад

There is no 'cane' in Citizen Kane...

@TheRightLadder 4 года назад

@@lanceuppercut2013 I remember watching Citizen Kane and seeing a cane. I shouted out "Lisa was wrong, there is a cane in Citizen Kane".

@65g4 3 года назад

I think Greg Tolland who was a great cinematographer really helped him. Also him working in theatre helped him make Kane also the guy was a genius

@nathanchalmers9857 5 лет назад

Thank god that cop warned him not to go back to his room.

@OuterGalaxyLounge 5 лет назад

Despite Welles' self deprecation here he already had been practicing direction in the theatrical stage and on radio as well as working under directors of those, so he aleady knew how to handle scripts, actors, stage movement and design.

@perthrockskinda2946 4 года назад

Yeah, well he did War of the worlds on the radio, and apparently used a lot of techniques he picked up working in radio

@scotnick59 5 лет назад

Lucille Ball dated Orson just before she married Desi & thought he looked "porcine' around the nose.

@DBEdwards 2 года назад

One of the very best Cavett shows ever. Orson is the supremely entertaining raconteur. BTW in 1973 I was privileged to attend a Cavett show on 57th street (?) with the guest Herman Kahn. I was a senior in high school at the time. Real fun.

@yvesandrethevenot3489 4 года назад

What a genius he was! What a great artist! Citizen Kane forever one of the greatest movies EVER. Art 24 fps!

@biblehistoryscience3530 3 года назад

Orson Wells made great leaps in moviemaking because he didn’t know that it couldn’t be done that way. That’s fascinating because it’s the same thing Ed Roberts said when he was asked about creating the personal computer that sparked the microcomputer revolution. He wouldn’t have tried it if he’d known what everyone else knew, that it couldn’t be done. So he made great leaps in computer science due to his ignorance on the subject.

@BigDogRidgeback 5 лет назад

I love listening to Orson,I wish he could have ran for President.

@gswhipkey1 3 года назад

"Kane for President"

@rebeccao8895 День назад

Yeah. That’s just what we need. Folks without law degrees, military experience or any kind of serious degree running America right now.

@rebeccao8895 День назад

@@gswhipkey1and we see how it turned out for Charles Foster Kane

@Orf 5 лет назад

1:10 Movies can be learned in about a day and a half

@themacguffin 5 лет назад

¡Para los hispanohablantes! Les dejo un video que hice en mi canal: 'Cuando Borges criticó a Citizen Kane... y Orson Welles le respondió'. (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5LVNtnQ92_o.html) Les aseguro que les resultará muy interesante! :D

@dmontes133 5 лет назад

Welles is one of my idols. Genius!

@travistaylor4342 10 месяцев назад

I only started learning about Orson Welles in the last couple of years and I find him fascinating

@MitchClement-il6iq 8 месяцев назад

All his interviews are intelligent and unique... such a great smart man.

@foto21 5 месяцев назад

The endlessly quotable Orson Welles. So brilliant and yet seemingly, a nice guy. Pretty intense combination, he charisma and appeal is off the charts. Such a soothing voice also. Like the ultimate elder in a family.

@larrysimon1 3 месяца назад

DC's greatest skill is letting the interviewee Just Talk ! What a period in time.

@clifforddriver9434 Год назад

He was a brilliant individual, he would simplify everything just the way things are supposed to be. It's always best to let one do the job he was paid to do. Not many are not scared of a good challenge.

@vontebrown1284 4 года назад

This man was smart, and called the bullshit out, as you can see in this interview, and stood up against Racism in Hollywood pertaining Black art

@foodjam9193 5 лет назад

My great grandparents bought a cabin from this man

@bluebebleu 5 лет назад

Im a 20 sum year old and even though I never grew up in this time period I respect Orson Welles immensely. Artistic genius and intriguing human

@robertmcelwaine7024 5 лет назад

Welles while intelligent also comes over a fairly humble and charming here. A profoundly likeable, down to earth guy.

@rnhtube 5 лет назад

Wow what an absolutely amazing six minutes of TV with him. I didn't think he gave that many interviews. Can you imagine? Stuck in an elevator with Hearst on the night of the premiere? Orson Welles' life certainly was cinematic.

@us-Bahn 3 года назад

Cavett’s interviews had the luxury of time. And many of his guests were chosen because they possessed an expertise and not just because they were famous. With Orson Welles, he practically interviews himself because he could be a master raconteur & showman. If he wanted.

@hudsony777 3 года назад

The air is chilled with dramatic sunsets. Now is the time for ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand-new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. PLUS, a radio fantasy-comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Hex2ltykNTM.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on RU-vid.

@marvwatkins7029 3 года назад

He sold no wine before its time.

@matthew-jy5jp 4 года назад

The ironic thing about Citizen Kane the character in the movie is more like Orson Welles than William Randolph Hearst. And it is also ironic that Orson Welles most prolific work was his complete undoing

@jasonite 5 лет назад

Orson saying the way he made Citizen Kane out of sheer 'dumbness' is very similar to what Spielberg said about directing Jaws. I thought that was a cool parallel

@guinnesstrail 5 лет назад

When Gods walked the earth, and ate Oreos by the dozen.

@michaelerickson985 3 года назад

There is nothing in the pantheon of ancient pagan gods, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, or otherwise, that suggests that those gods ate Oreo cookies. If you have a source reference for your assertion, then I recommend providing it.

@johnhigham5721 4 года назад

Great seeing an interview in the US where the audience don’t scream like idiots at every word.

@SymphonyBrahms 3 года назад

Orson Welles saying that he would change Citizen Kane is like van Gogh saying that he would change Starry Night.

@theverminmediaareyourenemi5612 5 лет назад

If I met Orson Welles in a dream, I'd continuously ask him about his nose. 'You have a very, very unusual nose'...like just keep bringing it up.

@leonlawson2196 5 лет назад

Interesting

@michaelcelani8325 4 года назад

How Funny...make a fun dream!

@brandon_e24 2 года назад

I’d ask him how many donuts he ate per day. And I bet he’d be honest & say like 17

@paullynch4021 5 лет назад

If you were to ever hold an imaginary party of figures from history, with a Shakespeare, a Julius Caesar, a Da Vinci as guests, it would only be enlivened by having Orson Welles amongst them.

@jshepard152 5 лет назад

Please invite TR.

@SuperVstech 5 лет назад

so, THIS is where the voice actor for pinky and the brain's the Brain came from...

@atomicsmith 5 лет назад

Pepperidge farm remembers...

@williamstdog9 3 года назад

Can someone please help me? I’m fairly intelligent but can’t quite figure out what Orson meant when he said he would “rather sit here snd think how great they must have been.” Was he meaning that if he watched them he would be picking them apart (negatively)? Or did he mean that he’d rather listen to other ppl talk them up to glorify them more than what they were? It seems like everyone here (in the comments - as well as Cavett & Lemon) immediately understood what he meant. Sorry if it sounds like a dumb question but if I was Dick I would have followed up for clarification on exactly what Welles meant by that! Either way it sounds like a humble statement!

@sniffableandirresistble 5 лет назад

I cannot describe how much I love this man!!!

@halkingb 3 года назад

Orson Welles must be the most interesting man ever. I’m addicted to interviews with him.

@Lotmeister 5 лет назад

I've always admired those who did what they were told they couldn't do. Today filmmaking is so advanced that it's hard to appreciate how revolutionary Welles was with Citizen Kane. The bigwigs said, "You can't have a fake newsreel in a picture!" But he did. It was pretty much the next step up from his semi-infamous "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast which was made up primarily of completely fictional (but very realistic-sounding) news bulletins.

@jeanmont Год назад

Just watched Citizen Kane a few days ago after a lifetime of hearing it's the best film ever made. I really liked it, though I would've really loved to see it without already knowing what "Rosebud" meant. Also, what a charismatic, likeable person Mr. Welles was, or "Orston", as some of us know him.

@hannibalburgers477 Год назад

Rosebud is unnecessary, but almost every single script writer would say that a dialogue based story needs a mystery. Surely, best example that I can give is also the most recent one, Oppenheimer. If you remove the mystery of "What Oppie said to Einstein" and remove few dialogues that references it, the movie would still work. But the movie would lack the mystery. We live in future, we already have a gist of how everything ended up. We already know that Strauss himself was (sort of) a scientist and dislikes Oppenheimer for his ideology. We know that he was found guilty in the end. There is no mystery in the plot without Einstein, although the movie would work without his existence.

@hannibalburgers477 Год назад

I know this because I am writing a book about bunch of people trying to find a man in a deserted place. I explained what the man did and why they are looking for him. I delivered how the man got in that location. But when I show that to my professor, he told me that there needs to be another mystery of why people are so ambitious for their research. Simple "doing your duty like a decent government officer" was not enough, I guess.

@michaelbulls5872 3 года назад

Who's here after Mank?

@idlehour 2 года назад

I love that he was very anti racism, anti hate, intelligent, and active.

@Markus_Andrew 5 лет назад

Here in Australia we never got The Dick Cavett Show - at least, I don't ever remember seeing it (I'm of a certain age), but lately I've started watching him on YT. I've always known of him, just never saw him. Present-day talks show hosts could learn a lot from Cavett - not just how to ask interesting questions, but more importantly, how to shut up while the guest is talking and wait until they're finished before asking the next question. These days, the hosts never stop interrupting their guests. I just came from a Stephen Colbert video of an interview he did with Rowan Atkinson about a year ago and he made Atkinson completely lose his train of thought with his constant interrupting - Atkinson even said, "I forgot what I was talking about" at one point.

@SCCL1000 5 лет назад

Perhaps in the future, interrupting will be recognized as a bad thing. Then, civilization can move ahead.

@peterenola2265 5 лет назад

1:22 "You know technically that the whole bag of movies can be learned in a day and a half?" Fantastic. Because it is actually true. There's nothing secret, nothing incredibly difficult about directing a movie.

@thomasb-o6j 3 года назад

I just watched Citizen Kane for like the 20th time. I didn’t know Orson Welles was so funny, genuine, and classy.

@akaJughead 5 лет назад

George Lucas should have taken a page from Orson Welles's book. Maybe then he wouldn't have messed around with Star Wars and pissed everybody off.

@Sjrick 3 года назад

I used to shoot video for years and what he said really hit home. I dont need to rewatch my movies because Ive edited them for hours and know every scene. Orson seems like a really cool guy here. Friendly and not as uptight as he got later in life.