“This is part of a theory I once elaborated with Hitchcock in a happy moment. We decided then that in order to have a sweeping success in the highbrow cinemas of the Anglo-Saxon world we should make a film about nothing, in no language at all and with bad photography–but copiously subtitled. We agreed that people would scream their heads off with delight.”
Orson Welles (interview with Francis Koval, Sight and Sound, 1950)