{"id":1216,"date":"2009-11-09T19:34:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T19:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/orson-welles-the-not-overly-cerebral-artist\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T15:49:42","slug":"orson-welles-the-not-overly-cerebral-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/orson-welles-the-not-overly-cerebral-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"orson welles. the not-overly-cerebral artist."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never liked talking about art or literature in general, and I&#8217;ve always hated artists who talk about their work rather than doing it.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Orson Welles<\/p>\n<p>The man voted Greatest Director of All Time by the British Film Institute essentially said that he didn&#8217;t dare think about deconstruction and criticism of art and literature because such things would occupy his mind with what were, ultimately, unworthy distractions for any artist.   <\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"450\" height=\"365\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mI3eBTMXSiU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mI3eBTMXSiU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"365\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here Welles tells the interviewer that he doesn&#8217;t believe acting (writing fiction) is anything except convincing the audience (reader) of something that isn&#8217;t true.   This may seem to fly in the face of Stanislavski and all those literary Russians I love so much, until one makes the &#8216;artistic truth vs. affective memory\/emotional truth&#8217; distinction.  You&#8217;ll also want to remember that Stanislavski was greatly influenced by Tolstoy and the Count didn&#8217;t care much for overly cerebral artists&#8230;which is what Welles seems to be saying too.  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never liked talking about art or literature in general, and I&#8217;ve always hated artists who talk about their work rather than doing it.&#8221; -Orson Welles The man voted Greatest Director of All Time by the British Film Institute essentially said that he didn&#8217;t dare think about deconstruction and criticism of art and literature because<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-writing-tips","tag-orson-welles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}