“When the American movie-maker becomes aware of a discrepancy between his film and the appearance of life, he corrects the difference in favor of ‘realism.’ The search for the direct and the literal produces some of our best effects.”
Orson Welles, “Orson Welles Today,” New York Post, May 23, 1945
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