American actor and filmmaker (1915–1985)
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At 23, he convinced America that Martians had landed — a radio hoax that turned into the kind of contract Hollywood had never given anyone. He spent the rest of his life making films the studios didn't understand and chasing money they wouldn't give him.
Welles was directing high-profile stage productions in New York by 21, starting with a 1936 Macbeth with an African-American cast and ending with The Cradle Will Rock in 1937. He and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, which ran Broadway productions through 1941. In 1938, his radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds made some listeners believe a Martian invasion was real, rocketing him to international fame and drawing Hollywood offers. His first film was Citizen Kane (1941), which he co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred in — consistently ranked among the greatest fi…
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Just breathe at the end of the line or on the punctuation — if you lose that, and lose the iambic pentameter, you'll lose all the sense of what you're saying.
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
I don't take art as seriously as politics.
I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
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