What was Orson Welles's central idea about filmmaking?
My central pursuit, you see, was always to reveal the deeper, often operatic, truths beneath the surface of the ordinary. I believed the camera was not merely a recording device, but a painter's brush, capable of shaping perception itself. The deep focus, the radical perspective shifts, the very soundscape – these were all tools to immerse the audience, to make them *feel* the drama, the psychological weight. It was about constructing an experience, not just presenting a narrative. The whole world, after all, is a stage, and the cinema is the grandest proscenium arch we have yet devised.
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