Orson Welles - Directing is OVERRATED‼️

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[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.

[Chapps]

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

[adambazso]

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.

[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.

[automaticmattywhack]

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

[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.

[hadoken]

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.

[AlphaCentauri]

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

[jordanbridges]

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

[Viper-gg]

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

[ehzpfjd]

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.

[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.

[KW-roow]

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

[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.

[williamlambiase]

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

[eras]

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

[LouieInOK]

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

[Thedelta]

Not the only job. I knew a lot of incompetent people in the military, and they all got honored and promoted as imbeciles.

[VNow]

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

[eddiemorrone]

Lol… that’s an interesting perspective for sure.