"Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them." -- Iconic filmmaker and actor Orson Welles, from "Orson Welles: Interviews," Mark W. Estrin (2002). While he may have been exaggerating the extremities of the "poles" for the majority of people, Welles had a point in that no one's one dimensional. His films were certainly studies in the complexities of humans, using dialogue and his extraordinary storytelling skills, along with groundbreaking cinematography techniques to make film art.
(photo: Welles in "Citizen Kane," RKO Radio/Mercury Productions)
