Martin Scorsese On Orson Welles
“This was a force
of nature that came in,
a creation that wiped the slate clean from the type
of films that preceded him. There was never any gray with him. He told Kane cinematographer Gregg Toland, ‘Let’s do everything they told us never to do.’ The low angles and deep focal-length lenses, the structure of the story, the flashbacks, the overlapping images–no one had ever seen anything like it.”
