Filming 'The Trial'

The chief interest in listening to a great man or woman speak is principally in order to discern the knowledge they possess and are enable to enact (this possession and enactment being two sides of the same coin) about how to live well, and Welles always manages to convey the impression he has it in spades, along with the courage to put it to work. Here, he encourages an audience of young filmmakers by noting that the money he spent on making films greatly exceeds the money he has received back.

Genius man!

No one holds court like Orson Welles. In this case the audience is not just devoted admirers but cinephiles who seem uncertain of, and in some cases almost hostile towards, Welles the film maker. But Welles is self-assured without being pompous, as well as honest and humble. He really values the opinions of the audience, mostly here to do with their views on 'The Trial'. All these qualities are what make Welles a great film maker; a man ahead of the times but with one foot firmly in the past.