The greatest filmmaking lesson by Orson Welles, the director of Citizen Kane 

im glad to see a young guy picking up on lessons from orson welles. it gives me heart movies will be in good hands. 🎉

Yeah but part of why Welle's films took so long is because Hollywood screwed him over so hard ... feel like the moral here is he industry is not your friend.

The main creative lesson to be learned from Orson Welles in my opinion is simply to keep going. Accolades and audiences come and go, but he kept on working his entire life, furiously and tirelessly, because he apparently had a mandate from the cosmos to create filmic art at any cost. There was simply nothing else he could or wanted to do, and so he pushed on relentlessly making films until the day he died. It's a sad commentary on the taste of popular audiences and the film industry that almost all his time over his whole career was spent wheeling and dealing and begging producers for money rather than actually making films. But he made a great body of work and it's a shame that all the attention is given to Citizen Kane while films like The Trial, Chimes and Midnight, and F for Fake are so ignored. Keep on working and doing the good deed and let the recognition come later.

this is actually a great message you made: everyone wants to be successful, but success is just a temporary fulfillment to cover up for our insecurity of being mediocre. people aren’t okay with the risk of failing, and thus afraid to do things for the sake of doing them for fun without it having to amount to anything profitable

Very thoughtful and wise words, my dude.

I SHALL DRINK NO WINE BEFORE ITS TIME!!!

Thank you for applying Welles' experience and legacy to important creative and life decisions. You did a fine job inspiring and motivating people, and also paid a terrific tribute to one of our most creative and important American talents. Onward!

Time is perceived to pass more slowly during youth because youth is largely regimented by school; school creates yearly landmarks, yearly boxes, with which we stuff our memories. You remember 1979 because you were in 4th grade and that's the year the Monkees TV show debuted. You remember 1986 because you were in 7th grade when your favorite team lost a heartbreaker in the championship; you remember 1993 because that's when your you were a junior in high school and your classmate stood at the blackboard and cussed out the chemistry teacher. By contrast, when if you don't have the artificial dividing lines of school you have monotony that is uninterrupted until it is. A life event creates the marker. The marker isn't created for you. So, if nothing new happens, the time is unremarkable and is perceived as passing more quickly.

Never Surrender! Wolverrrrines!

Thank you for such a thoughtful perspective.

"Have you seen Citizen Kane?" "Yeah, sure, it's great."

What a beautiful video. Subbed

excellent opinion video on this when it comes to the topic of time and when things feel like they take forever... thank you for this

Excellent approach! The observations you've made regarding age are quite intriguing and give us a lot of food for thought! Thanks for sharing!

Loved the video keep doing what you’re doing.

I like your style! Very well said and well put together. Your video and sound design are on point too.

The brain is like a muscle , you gotta push it more for it to grow.

Inspiring video-thanks.

Very good and TRUE observations! I can't believe that i've made over 350 videos now (started just for fun and to keep track of gaming and various other things) but even within THAT (doing something OUT of your COMFORT zone), u still find maybe only 1 out of every 30 is really good! (To ur own standards i mean) It's a very very complicated thing/art form - coz it's so multi-faceted! Great vid!

The lesson is that the Hollywood establishment squashed one of its supreme talents and let him operate on the fringes of the film industry for DECADES, doing independent movies for pennies, like virtual masterpieces Touch of Evil or F for Fake. How can one expect to make it and have some professional perspective if Welles didnt?

1:27 it ALWAYS takes forever when you’ve never done it before. Then when you’ve done it once, you find 1,000 ways the next time will be simpler. Do those things you’ve never done before, it will open doors you never knew existed. Orson is a personal hero of mine, thank you for posting about this incredible and seemingly forgotten genius who can teach us all even after he has taken his last breath. A True Legend. 🩵

4:20 FANTASTIC EXAMPLE of Relative Time and how the Value of Time Changes as we travel through it.

Love that movie, great advice!

Great video

Great video man, congrats! It's cool to see things like this and be inspired by them. I know I am. I know I'll be a bit less rash and impatient the next time I "do something that takes forever and doesn't get me much". That doeasn't have a commercial purpose. Thanks for this. As Guillermo del Toro said, "The natural state of a film is "incomplete". Until you do it.

2 mins in and im a fan!

Nice video. From an Orson fan and film buff.

He died the year I was born too...x

Subbed!

Watch his movie 'F is for Fake' Fantastic!

Orson...Stage.Radio.Silent Films..Movies..Television ..interviews. Night Club Living.

i like your style. Your video is professional but laid back and relaxing and not fast, overcutted and over animated like the typical "youtube professionals" out there

You have doubts if you create something, - is a good thing.

It's infuriating that people continue to just say, "Oh yeah, Welles - the guy who made Citizen Kane and some other stuff." In reality, most of his work rivals or surpasses Kane, but it takes an intelligent audience to appreciate it.

I will tell you, it is not easy to make even a short film. And film is the most expensive art form there is.