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Orson Welles on Commercial Filmmaking

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Orson Welles on Commercial Filmmaking

Welles shooting Citizen Kane (1941)

We can thank Orson Welles for this pithy, and all too true comment on commercial cinema:

“The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.”

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