Orson Welles - Directing is OVERRATED‼️

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[@Chapps1941]

That's a humble position. Not many in Hollywood are humble

[@jordanbridges]

PosiTOOOON

[@stephenpfeiffer1708]

SIUUUUU

[@Kpooji]

Not many would have called Welles humble, to be honest.

[@Chapps1941]

@@Kpooji true but this statement is

[@Coastfog]

This was long before directors became what they are today. Now they often have many more skills & responsibilities, sort of like another tier of producer, focused on creative decisions.

[@AFO_AnalyRics]

If the rest of the crew is good enough, a bad director won't make much of a difference. If the director is good enough, he will make something worthwhile out of even a bad (or no) crew.

[@fang_xianfu]

Plus the director puts the crew together.

[@AFO_AnalyRics]

@@fang_xianfu Ideally, yes. But, not always the case. Sometimes, the production companies impose certain members of crew on the hired director.

[@Keepcalm-lovesports]

​@@fang_xianfuthat's just the famous ones, the crew building sometimes happens parallel to the financing part in those cases. normally the producers find the people with the help of the casting directors. of course relationships of people and recommendations play a role here as well.

[@TheBrilliantBrick]

Sorry to be "that guy" but can you give examples for each? Just curious.

[@AFO_AnalyRics]

@@TheBrilliantBrick Martin Scorcese's short film 'The Big Shave' had hardly any crew at all and just one actor. It's considered a classic in the short film genre. Likewise, Christopher Nolan's 'The Following' was mostly a personally pushed project between him and his friends (none of whom were professional cast/crew). As for good cast/crew making up for directorial deficiencies, at least 50% of the movies we see today fit that category - which was the point Mr. Welles was making here.

[@NemeanLion-]

He’s such a legend in so many different aspects of film, but I just remember him most of all for that incredible voice.

[@adambazso9207]

His voice is very pleasant to listen to. It always reminds me of "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" by The Alan Parsons Project, his performance there makes the whole album even more layered and elevates the music.

[@kkly27]

I was thinking the exact same thing. I could listen to him talk all day long. Such a lovely tone.

[@adambazso9207]

@@kkly27 I agree! :)

[@sabbathjackal]

He did radio for 10 yrs

[@Dremth]

Omg I never realized that was him.

[@adambazso9207]

@@sabbathjackal You are right, I forgot about that! "The War of the Worlds" and other programmes too. Just a very talented man.

[@hadoken95]

Wouldn't say it's the ONLY job in the world you can be incompetent at yet still successful. CEOs and boards of directors at most tech and game companies, I'm looking at you.

[@KINDaf]

Ex presidents too!

[@hamanu666]

@@KINDafall presidents and politicians. Hardly any do anything but lie and get rich off our taxes.

[@thareelhelloagain]

​@@KINDaf Or the sitting president. 40% of his time on vacation.

[@iiwi758]

Many-not all, but probably most-football coaches.

[@princegobi5992]

Every capitalist born with wealth fails upwards

[@jordanbridges]

Humble as heck. But good people usually downplay their own strengths.

[@AdrianusArilius]

That's my take on most directors that Disney is hiring recently, and you can see it in animation, marvel, and lucas film movies.

[@pkoven]

the only thing which he said which i know is incorrect is when he claimed that "being a director is the only profession where you can be incompetent yet successful for 30 years and no one will know". there are many many people like that in many other professions.

[@bevrosity]

mlb umpires. bureaucrats.

[@jonathanpinckney9227]

The military, for example.

[@Bambino_60]

They were going to ask him to be the original Darth Vader voice.

[@toso9489]

I love people like this. Who open eyes to the ones closed. ❤

[@Quantum-XF]

Orson Welles knows what’s talking about! He lived in the thick of it all, in his time! He was a great actor too and got even a better one, as he grew older!

[@pedrosuarez2349]

The same could be said of a lot of music producers...,.when the real credit should go to the sound engineers....

[@KW-ro5ow]

I wish I could've been around the night War Of The Worlds was broadcast in 1938. Every time I hear his voice...

[@TMPSpodcast]

I totally agree and there are so many directors out there that no one knows and no one cares about. Being a director only matters when it's your film and is something that you're creating and producing

[@AlphaCentauri24]

Wise words. This is also why hollywood is churning out garbage now.

[@Gunno77]

No, Hollywood is churning out garbage because it's become more focused on making money than making good movies and places more emphasis on effects than script.

[@Gunno77]

Don't mean to put you down. I just don't see how directors being overrated can be the main cause of Hollywood churning out garbage. If anything, that's the opposite of what Welles is saying.

[@girlcheck]

He was pure genius. Today you'd be hard-pressed to find a director who could stick to the script, respect history or have a clue about how to end a film.

[@metaparcel]

When you said respect history I knew you're one of those who can't stand history being shown differently like a black King Henry byt your ass doesn't mind fake ass gangsters like John Wayne acting like a cowboy in a way that real cowboys in the Wild West never acted historically in the past. People don't want to admit they just plain hate on skin and ethnicity and religion yet give themselves a pass. Historically accurate my ass.

[@misterbobby8913]

How should a film end?

[@girlcheck]

@@misterbobby8913 depends on the film

[@misterbobby8913]

@@girlcheck could you give some examples, I'm just genuinely curious

[@girlcheck]

@@misterbobby8913 the recent film Killers of the Flower Moon had a terrible ending. I thought it lazy and disrespectful. The ending of long legs was a poor set up for a prequel.

[@JohnJenkins-l4p]

This MAN is one of my favorite people in the movie industry,love that voice,if he was still alive I would like to have a cigar with him and listen to his stories.

[@AddieMMiller]

Orsen Welles is a dynamic, impeccable & brilliant Director & Actor. He is my upmost favorite.🎤📽️🎬🎉

[@BeardLAD]

I get where he’s coming from, there are degrees of input that a director has in movie making: organisational to creative. When the director’s role is primarily & mainly organisational, he performs his duties best by getting the most out of his crew with the least degree of interference coupled with making himself available when his assistance - knowledge & ‘unity of command’ - simplifies & synchronises the movie making process on & off set, in pre to post production: on behalf of and to the ‘greater benefit’ of, the crew as individual craftsmen & as a ‘unified’ group. The director - knowing mainly what NOT to do - extracts more out of his crew than they ever could do without him or her ‘unifying & amplifying’ their respective individual creative talents. The director is like a needle that weaves wonders from individual threads of ‘excellent’ material, that lend their excellence to an otherwise unknowable work of artistic intelligence & craftsmanship. Now the interference from studio ‘execs’ who think they know how to produce ‘evergreen’, should be easier to understand.

[@automaticmattywhack1470]

Weathermen can also be incompetent and keep their jobs. It happens every day.

[@pepelemoko01]

weathermen finical advisors political pollsters fortune tellers relationship "experts

[@invisalats841]

It's not the weatherman that is incompetent. It's that the tools given are impossible to predict the weather with any real certainty. You can try it yourself, toss a large handful of different coins on the ground, and record the results, heads, or tails for each coin type. Do this 50 times. Then, for the next 50 times, make your guess for each coin type heads or tails based on the previous results. That's just the start. After getting rather decent at that, you'll then need to map and predict where each coin is likely to land each time. The worst part is that you aren't the one tossing the coins, and the strength of the toss can only be estimated after the arm starts moving. Oh, and the amount of each coin in the handful of coins is variable.

[@shuriken8314]

Anything T&A too

[@pepelemoko01]

My personel hatred is horseracing tipsters.😁

[@maquisarto]

Absolutely ! Thanks for sharing 👌🙏❤️

[@brynleyjones2674]

He was prophesying Michael Bay 😂

[@V4Now]

What's the word the kids use? "Based"?

[@puka55]

Savage!! Mr. Wells was a truly exceptional assistant to performances, then. I'll certainly follow his semantic lead.

[@paulpanter4941]

I want an audiobook from that guy

[@mcst6969]

Ghost busters 2016 anyone?

[@helpIthinkmylegsaregone]

I always wondered about that with Camera work. Like, is it the cameraman or the director who decides it? We often talk about the iconic look of certain director's movies, but then what exactly does the cameraman do, just work the apparatus? You get an Oscar for that?

[@THEremiXFACTOR]

I think it depends on the director/ director of photography. For example, I think Ridley Scott often operated the camera himself in the past and had huge input into the lighting etc. However, there will be Directors of Photography who are very much in control and the Director might take a back seat.

[@cyclro]

So true today more than ever...

[@omegajrz1269]

I love when he is interpreted by Vincent D'Onofrio in Ed Wood

[@marlinavallejos2258]

Wow! Very insightful and interesting to know this.

[@davidkelly499]

Not the only job. Politicians do it all he time, the majority of them do it actually.

[@MordorsMadness]

Orson Wells was such a awesome guy. I love hearing his story about Churchill and the Russian.

[@jakewolf9495]

wow! as time would move on after this comment history would show time and again he was right. and it totally explains why certain directors are so hit and miss

[@natmanprime4295]

thats like jackie mason level comedy

[@natmanprime4295]

@@bobs8005 whats wrong with what i said, and whats wrong with YOU

[@therolinga79]

Amen !!!

[@stuka1977]

Very, very, modest since he was a genius!...

[@homsie25]

Where do I sign up

[@julioarias2098]

Well seeing the behind the scenes in films, it seems like that have a lot of say, when it comes to what direction the film has to go, the artists renderings he has to choose which ones to use, he or she is supposed to direct actors in what they want in a scene, that’s what I thought they did anyway? Maybe it’s all a big fat lie lol

[@riddley39]

Finally what I’ve been saying for years and years! Absolutely overrated! What on earth do they really do? The legend himself told you!! 👌

[@gladiator1342]

Wow. Just wow. Master of the craft.

[@Khodorchan]

Spot on from a genius!

[@shebsaturner9737]

Beautiful voice. Great actor 😊

[@DiscoCokkroach]

Hey, it's Brain from "Pinky & The Brain" :D

[@MrYatesj1]

One of the best right there

[@catalinasherwell5540]

Soooooo true!!!!!

[@LouieInOK]

Welles was a genius. He's underrating the director job, IMHO.

[@TigerGreene]

MmmmmmmnnnnaaaAAAAHHH THE FRENCH.

[@Jamie_E_Pritchard]

Well... Directors and perhaps football managers 🤔

[@icnohelp]

Good actors direct themselves.

[@matthewfarmer9500]

JJ Abrams

[@toso9489]

I think of Clint Eastwood right away

[@muzikman183]

Ortho from Beetlegeuse is much more than Ortho from Beetlegeuse?? well damn. all these years..

[@lynnerose7891]

Maybe then. I think the pool of good directors has gotten bigger.

[@helenheeney2284]

An absolute ly outstanding man

[@thatsruffdog]

People are starting to realize this. Just like how they realize studios are more to blame than the artists when a product comes out half-baked. When I was little, my dream job was to be a director. But when I was older I gave up on that cos it seemed like it was really hard to do and too much work. I still want to work in film but I want to be behind the scenes instead of managing an entire production.

[@MightyEFX]

theres still people who do the work for you you dont have to take care of everything if you have a full team and the money lend from a studio the more important struggle is to maintain integrity and not allow any businessmen to change your work

[@MindMasterDan]

Could have been Darth Vader 😃😃😃

[@eddiemorrone870]

Lol… that’s an interesting perspective for sure.

[@doorknobhandlebar]

He was supposed to be the voice of Darth Vader as oppsed to James Earl Jones(rest in peace)

[@MarthaWoodworth-f9s]

The director as a great artist.

[@NotSoMuchFrankly]

Keep in mind Orson Welles came from live theater so he has a sort of belief that, say, Steve Albini had with music: let the artists do their thing, you're just there to record it. It's a legit philosophy. But if you're a composer/conductor, you can have your own ideas and then try to heard a bunch of cats to do it. That's an admirable and far more creative endeavor than mere, objective documentation. It's just a matter of who is a creator and who is a collaborator/facilitator.

[@eras7797]

This is not being overrated, this is not learning they're craft enough, realize the scale of such a profession, which is essentially the definition of an artist. This is something that has to be meditated over time

[@Viper-g6g]

It goes like this as far as most important 1. Writer 2. Editor 3. Director 4.Actor

[@ii674]

2. Should be screenplay

[@natmanprime4295]

i say writer, actor, dirrector, editor

[@noheroespublishing1907]

​@@natmanprime4295The editor of the story/screenplay/script is an extremely important job. I've watched too many films where I kept screaming "Where was the editor?" When it comes to the story. Film Editing is after the fact of filming, Narrative Editing has to happen after the story is nailed out, that's where you catch the plot holes and inconsistencies before they're filmed and the Film Editor is stuck with trying to get around them.

[@AlphaCentauri24]

Actor in last position? 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@sivaspidey597]

​​@@natmanprime4295absolutely correct

[@Mr.bottle_episode]

This is what makes the difference between a good movie and a great one, a good movie has a good cast,crew and a decent director, a great movie has a good cast,crew and an amazing director

[@jamesrrr37657]

Ahaaaa, the french champaaaagne

[@THEremiXFACTOR]

There are plenty of directors around today, churning out garbage, who have no idea about storytelling. Yet they move on to the next well paid job, even if their previous films got poor reviews and made little money.

[@iosifbalint682]

What about the writers?

[@Johnnystammy]

I love how he always said its fun but stop flapping your wings like we should be amazed.

[@NoahSpurrier]

I think Alfred Hitchcock said almost the opposite.

[@DiscoCokkroach]

He said, "a real one," because he's a real one.

[@robbiewright9573]

His voice is instantly recognizable 😮

[@Kweesh]

Movies are so formulaic now that this is more true than ever

[@JRR0013]

The editor is the one who makes a good film.

[@specialknees6798]

What a voice he had.

[@Ivanhoe52]

That's funny-because it's true..

[@williamlambiase7248]

I tried to imagine him as dark Vader because he was one of the other choices

[@koriw1701]

He didn't say that "I know that" about 'directing being the only one that gives [him] pleasure,' he said "I loathe acting." The closed captioning is always second rate on KZbin, but since so much is made by bots with these 'tiktok-like' clips then churned out of by the algorithm, it's a wonder we understand anything anymore.

[@thaat1]

Not only do I concur with Mr. Welles, The most overrated movie in the history of cinema is his Citizen Kane. I watched it once, and never shall I again!

[@jeffescanto]

I wholeheartedly disagree..

[@dragonballa5083]

Shoutout to my boy Tarantino!

[@DrePants44]

From the director of the greatest film of all time: chill out

[@SmokeymcJoint420]

If you haven't seen his wine commercial bloopers youmare in for a treat.

[@ggtjr4]

He’s one of the few that I would label “genius”

[@twotoxic632]

"Where you can be incompetent and still be successful for 30 years without anyone ever noticing it" Damn, talking about J. J. Abrams way before he was known.

[@YorbaTheYounger]

Nolan.

[@skipads5141]

Compare to Alfred Hitchcock who called all his actors cattle.

[@AodhanBeag]

That's a dig at you Michael Bay

[@finneganmagee]

Just realizing Orson Welles looks exactly like Cam from Modern Family.

[@acmiguens]

So directors are the middle managers of the movie industry

[@jakobfromthefence]

It would seem clear where Clint Eastwood took his lessons from

[@alangentrinapestegui]

UNICRON!

[@bulletxwound3559]

Damn the part about being incompetent amd still being successful is so true. Especially with the people working at Disney 😂 delivering nothing but dog shit and they still get jobs

[@Davebee]

Otho?

[@vinniehighlands6925]

Only for men though apparently

[@enoknab]

This man should see how CEOs play the game 😂

[@cellbiologyshorts9105]

* middle managers entered the chat *

[@thesonyxboxer6746]

B u L L S H I T ! ! !

[@jjfallnov]

I can't help but think of his drunken Paul Masson commercial takes lol

[@Urb4n0Ninj4]

AAAAHHHHHHHHH, the French...

[@bobthebear1246]

So, in other words, Michael Bay.