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GENIUSES AT LARGE
a good reason for doing it. Not because it gives me any pleasure, or because I care about film acting. ..."
But I can tell you some of the things he cares about. He cares about food. He can consume with ease and relish eighteen oysters, an entire chicken, numerous cream-cakes, two bottles of wine and several brandies at one sitting.
But when necessary he will diet rigorously and eat nothing but steaks.
He cares about music. He will fly a thousand miles to hear a symphony.
He cares about conversation. He will pick up the telephone and ring someone at the other end of the world, and say, " Hello. This is Orson. What gives . . . ? "
He does NOT care about fame and reputation, he claims.
" Fame," he says, "is a commercial thing. Like money, it is necessary so that you can do what you want to do. I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
" I take pleasure in life, but I am a pessimist. I do not think the situation of the world can make you an optimist. I happen to be fortunate. But I am exceptional."
When I got back to Hollywood a friend asked me, "Well, did you find the genius?"
I said, " I don't know. The man I found denied he had ever been anything of the sort."
I wished that I could have met Welles fifteen years ago. It was odd how prophetic Citizen Kane had been. The great newspaper tycoon of this film started so well. But somewhere along the way something happened and after that everything went wrong. We never really found out what it was that had happened to Kane. I wonder
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