In everything he says Welles always strikes me as a man who was humble in the truest sense. He has no false modesty-he knows he’s made some of the greatest films of all time. But he doesn’t do what some men might and use that knowledge to boost his ego and say “I have no regrets, I made the best movie ever!” Nor does he say “well Citizen Kane could’ve been better…” He knows what he’s good at, what he loves, but knows he could’ve also directed those energies to something more “productive.” Odd comparison, but it reminds me in a way of the “I could’ve saved more” scene in Schindler’s list.
It does remind me of the end of Schindler's List as well. I was also thinking of the power of going back and restarting life at an early age in your life with the same memories you kept of all the things you lived through before being sent back. What could you accomplish? How many changes would you make? Will you still have regrets at the end and a wish to do it over a 2nd or 3rd time? More importantly, would the world follow the same scripted events as your previous life until your actions result in changes (butterfly effect) or bound to always be unscripted as everything that has ever made a choice in your prevous life is free to choose differently this time, resulting in a world that is radically different even if you try to replicate every choice, decision and action down to every detail you had done in your previous life. That last question is my biggest since the answer is tied to how the universe is supposed to work. If the answer is yes then we have evidence that destiny is real and that free will is essentially, an illusion. If the answer is no, then having knowledge of the future in the past is pretty much useless as the restarded world would be very different than the one he or she lived before.
I completely understand this. I have no idea how people live without regret. The many small slips in life, the unintended unkind words, the opportunities missed - it seems impossible to me to live a life without regrets, even if you "succeed" by conventional standards.
It’s pointless. We can look at the past but not too long. This is your life. RIGHT NOW. Understand that nothing really matters but love in the world. Every decision based on fear can be a regret but one taken and chosen based on love fulfills life. Even regret by fear decisions are pointless. Just live your daily life like it’s your last day on earth . If it was that easy people would do it. And that’s why they don’t. Whatever position they’re in in life. Just take that mentality and thank god and LIFE for being alive, experience and the fact there’s a possibility for future. Also fear nothing.
Wanna know the secret ? To live without regret is understanding that a human being doesn't choose either to get born or not, where and when to get born, whom to be surrounded by and as such what to be influenced by, how to be led through life. *It's about understanding that your will is not really yours, that it is formed by momentary influences you have no control over* . And as the result of this humble understanding of one's nature to realize that it is utterly pointless to regret that in which you had no real say. Here you go. Be in peace.
@@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253 There's also another way... You can make a decision at a certain point in your life to treat other people as kindly as you can without burning yourself out. You can be aware enough to decide that being vicious, mean or vengeful doesn't add anything positive to your life. You can reject tendencies of small minds like exploiting others or bringing them down to boost your own ego, there are better ways of boosting your ego, like learning new skills and using them to support others or creating soemthing special to bring more joy or meaning into the world. You can decide to let go of people who hurt you without any ill thought, wishing them well, but not expecting from yourself to maintain a stable relationship with those who break your boundaries, just part ways... So that you're unburdened by their crappy behaviour or by lowering your own standards of how you want to show up in relationships. And when you fail at any point, when you dissapoint yourself with some immature behaviour, you can still apologise for it and try to reconnect with someone or wish them well and let them go. it seems to work well enough for me... I don't remember hurting anyone intentionally. I remember being told that something was hurtful to another person, even I didn't mean it to be, but I do my best to just apologise and explain my intentions and hear out why someone felt hurt by me. I still struggle a lot in life, I experienced heartbreak, dissapointments and the pain of other people's cruelty sometimes, but if I manage to not be mean or cruel in return, I wont have many regrets. Most of my regrets are about ging people too much benefit of doubt of forgiving too easily and allowing other to disrespect me. I have more regrets around staying in relationships for too long and loosing myself than I'd have of not trying hard enough to make things work. In some cases I think I regret not leaving relationships sooner in order to give myself enough space to meet new people and create more healthy and mutually supportive relationships, instead of accepting breadcrumbs.
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 There is never such thing as "incorrect" in the realm of subjectivity, as the practise shows. So I can pretty much can be absolutist about it. And you can't do anything about it.
Imagine being one of the most acclaimed people - in an era that had some of the greatest individuals in human history - and at the end you live in constant regret for not doing enough with your life.
Yeah. I think part of it to is that he did so many incredible things before he made Citizen Kane that he not continued to make movies he could have done more in those fields and I think that is what he means when he says he regrets falling in love with movies.
@@cooperwolfe5478 Well said. As the political scene in America has become increasingly more chaotic over the past half century, I've often wondered if would-be changemakers got lost in the arts, when they could have had more meaningful change working in the system ("Congressman Neil Young," for example). This is where Frank Zappa went in his later career, as he distanced himself from music and started his own political talk show.
I fell in love with Movies. They comfort me in times of distress and anxiety. 😪 But if i didn't have movies, and my passion for watching them, maybe I would be happier?
He means making movies and investing his life into making, writing and directing them and treating the people in his life badly because he was egotistical about his work.
You can have regrets but at the same time not regret doing those things. I regret having been a little s**t in my youth but if i wouldnt have my life wouldnt be how it is now.
A great man. Very rarely do I ever say that about a man. This was a good and kind person throughout his journey. His work will live on long after he's gone. That's a legend.
What I Love about his answer(s) are that they are human instead of standard cookie cutter prompts most say when asked the same question(s). He’s genuine, not bandwagon…
Or a contrarion who says whatever is interesting? Just as it is incompressible to live life without regrets the same can be said for living life full of regrets.
@@lampad4549Yeah that's what this sounded like. It's like he brings up the downsides of him going into movies without saying what he regrets not doing. That's not really regret, that's just a consequence to something that he wasn't expecting. Who knows, maybe I'm just a simpleton. Maybe in the full interview he explains in more detail.
The dichotomy of Orson Wells talking over Undertale (SPOILERS) music is jarring, but on second thought surprisingly fitting. This quote is about what Wells would have done differently, what he regrets, strong themes in Undertale. and Undertale may well be remembered in history as pivotal for it's depth and innovative narrative in terms of gameplay, as opposed to fitting gameplay into narrative. And, of course, we can't change our condition of LOVE.
"I have offended God and mankind by doing so little in my life." The literal last words of *Leonardo Da Vinci* Let that sink in for a moment. Let it sink in.
“Almost everything.” I fucking love Orson Welles, but nope. Not gonna end up like that. It’s so sad what Hollywood did to him - being completely outcast because he wanted to do things his way - but having regrets is a matter of perspective. That’s why it’s so important to make the number one priority in your life YOU. Not your work, not your career, not your friends, family, etc., but YOU. I know to some people that sounds selfish, but it’s not. You have to take care of yourself and your mind FIRST in order to really be good for other people too. And I don’t mean on the surface. I’m talking way down in the crevices. And I actually think that matters in this industry more than most. There are so many selfish people out for ego strokes here. You better learn how to spot them and know how to protect yourself, so you don’t end up with regrets. But that’s just my two cents. I do agree with him on one thing. Falling in love with movies, consciously or not, is gonna provide us with MANY obstacles. Let’s just be hyper aware and have as much fun as we can during the journey.
@@lampad4549 I don't think you know who Orson Welles is. His films were regularly interfered with and chopped up without his permission, he was outcast and had to make everything on a shoe string budget. He made art his priority, not himself, and although he suffered greatly, he also created works that will survive long after anyone in this comment section has passed on.
Welles’ body clad in a bathrobe, was discovered by his chauffeur, the day before some friends, said he looked pale and gaunt, but seemed cheerful and vitalelles, he was under treatment for a heart condition, and diabetes he had seen a physician, within the last 20 days, he was an enthusiastic eater, a drinker of incredible capacity, addicted to cigars, he was 6'2 and 240 pound's, he once weighed 400 pound's.
Wow. He didn’t feel fulfilled. Seems like he felt like there was so much more to life than movies (which there are) and he feels he didn’t properly get to experience it.
“I can’t change this condition of love… but I think I would be better off.”
The full line is "But I think I would be better off without it."
"I can't change this condition of LOVE", Orson Welles was truly one of the greatest artists to ever live.
In everything he says Welles always strikes me as a man who was humble in the truest sense. He has no false modesty-he knows he’s made some of the greatest films of all time. But he doesn’t do what some men might and use that knowledge to boost his ego and say “I have no regrets, I made the best movie ever!” Nor does he say “well Citizen Kane could’ve been better…” He knows what he’s good at, what he loves, but knows he could’ve also directed those energies to something more “productive.” Odd comparison, but it reminds me in a way of the “I could’ve saved more” scene in Schindler’s list.
It does remind me of the end of Schindler's List as well. I was also thinking of the power of going back and restarting life at an early age in your life with the same memories you kept of all the things you lived through before being sent back.
What could you accomplish? How many changes would you make? Will you still have regrets at the end and a wish to do it over a 2nd or 3rd time? More importantly, would the world follow the same scripted events as your previous life until your actions result in changes (butterfly effect) or bound to always be unscripted as everything that has ever made a choice in your prevous life is free to choose differently this time, resulting in a world that is radically different even if you try to replicate every choice, decision and action down to every detail you had done in your previous life.
That last question is my biggest since the answer is tied to how the universe is supposed to work. If the answer is yes then we have evidence that destiny is real and that free will is essentially, an illusion. If the answer is no, then having knowledge of the future in the past is pretty much useless as the restarded world would be very different than the one he or she lived before.
I completely understand this. I have no idea how people live without regret. The many small slips in life, the unintended unkind words, the opportunities missed - it seems impossible to me to live a life without regrets, even if you "succeed" by conventional standards.
It’s pointless. We can look at the past but not too long. This is your life. RIGHT NOW. Understand that nothing really matters but love in the world. Every decision based on fear can be a regret but one taken and chosen based on love fulfills life. Even regret by fear decisions are pointless. Just live your daily life like it’s your last day on earth . If it was that easy people would do it. And that’s why they don’t. Whatever position they’re in in life. Just take that mentality and thank god and LIFE for being alive, experience and the fact there’s a possibility for future. Also fear nothing.
Wanna know the secret ? To live without regret is understanding that a human being doesn't choose either to get born or not, where and when to get born, whom to be surrounded by and as such what to be influenced by, how to be led through life. *It's about understanding that your will is not really yours, that it is formed by momentary influences you have no control over* . And as the result of this humble understanding of one's nature to realize that it is utterly pointless to regret that in which you had no real say.
Here you go. Be in peace.
@@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253 There's also another way...
You can make a decision at a certain point in your life to treat other people as kindly as you can without burning yourself out.
You can be aware enough to decide that being vicious, mean or vengeful doesn't add anything positive to your life. You can reject tendencies of small minds like exploiting others or bringing them down to boost your own ego, there are better ways of boosting your ego, like learning new skills and using them to support others or creating soemthing special to bring more joy or meaning into the world.
You can decide to let go of people who hurt you without any ill thought, wishing them well, but not expecting from yourself to maintain a stable relationship with those who break your boundaries, just part ways... So that you're unburdened by their crappy behaviour or by lowering your own standards of how you want to show up in relationships.
And when you fail at any point, when you dissapoint yourself with some immature behaviour, you can still apologise for it and try to reconnect with someone or wish them well and let them go.
it seems to work well enough for me...
I don't remember hurting anyone intentionally. I remember being told that something was hurtful to another person, even I didn't mean it to be, but I do my best to just apologise and explain my intentions and hear out why someone felt hurt by me.
I still struggle a lot in life, I experienced heartbreak, dissapointments and the pain of other people's cruelty sometimes, but if I manage to not be mean or cruel in return, I wont have many regrets. Most of my regrets are about ging people too much benefit of doubt of forgiving too easily and allowing other to disrespect me. I have more regrets around staying in relationships for too long and loosing myself than I'd have of not trying hard enough to make things work. In some cases I think I regret not leaving relationships sooner in order to give myself enough space to meet new people and create more healthy and mutually supportive relationships, instead of accepting breadcrumbs.
@@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253 that’s fine as long as you’re not absolutist about it. Then you become incorrect.
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 There is never such thing as "incorrect" in the realm of subjectivity, as the practise shows. So I can pretty much can be absolutist about it. And you can't do anything about it.
Imagine being one of the most acclaimed people - in an era that had some of the greatest individuals in human history - and at the end you live in constant regret for not doing enough with your life.
Yeah. I think part of it to is that he did so many incredible things before he made Citizen Kane that he not continued to make movies he could have done more in those fields and I think that is what he means when he says he regrets falling in love with movies.
@@cooperwolfe5478 Well said. As the political scene in America has become increasingly more chaotic over the past half century, I've often wondered if would-be changemakers got lost in the arts, when they could have had more meaningful change working in the system ("Congressman Neil Young," for example). This is where Frank Zappa went in his later career, as he distanced himself from music and started his own political talk show.
He wasn't saying he lived in constant regret.
Orson said I started at the top and worked my way down😁😁😁😁
Never in my life would I have imagined seeing Orson Welles talking about regrets while Undertale is playing in the background. 😂😂😂
I never realized Orson was a kindred spirit.
I fell in love with Movies. They comfort me in times of distress and anxiety. 😪
But if i didn't have movies, and my passion for watching them, maybe I would be happier?
He means making movies and investing his life into making, writing and directing them and treating the people in his life badly because he was egotistical about his work.
Imagine regretting what you always loved in life. This is so deep
Was gonna say…this is a complex dude haha
falling in love with movies is silly. this would be more obsession than love imo
@@grawakendream8980what is love at all, if not silly?
Love is brain chemicals nothing deep
@@thetrickster9885...about you perhaps...
He brings up great points, wow
Man's greatest regret... giving himself and all he has to what he loves the most and in return is given betrayal.... beware the woman
You can have regrets but at the same time not regret doing those things. I regret having been a little s**t in my youth but if i wouldnt have my life wouldnt be how it is now.
The past is just footprints in the sand on distant shore. However the past run parallel with the present and the future.
I see Orson was filled with DETERMINATION
The greatest actor of all time.
That's so sad
A great man. Very rarely do I ever say that about a man. This was a good and kind person throughout his journey. His work will live on long after he's gone. That's a legend.
What I Love about his answer(s) are that they are human instead of standard cookie cutter prompts most say when asked the same question(s). He’s genuine, not bandwagon…
Or a contrarion who says whatever is interesting? Just as it is incompressible to live life without regrets the same can be said for living life full of regrets.
@@lampad4549Yeah that's what this sounded like. It's like he brings up the downsides of him going into movies without saying what he regrets not doing. That's not really regret, that's just a consequence to something that he wasn't expecting. Who knows, maybe I'm just a simpleton. Maybe in the full interview he explains in more detail.
he's being hard on himself though
The dichotomy of Orson Wells talking over Undertale (SPOILERS) music is jarring, but on second thought surprisingly fitting.
This quote is about what Wells would have done differently, what he regrets, strong themes in Undertale. and Undertale may well be remembered in history as pivotal for it's depth and innovative narrative in terms of gameplay, as opposed to fitting gameplay into narrative.
And, of course, we can't change our condition of LOVE.
I love ❤️ his voice over work as Unicron in the animated Transformers G1 movie 🎥 🍿 🤖
"I have offended God and mankind by doing so little in my life." The literal last words of *Leonardo Da Vinci* Let that sink in for a moment. Let it sink in.
Words more true are rarely spoken.
Coming from one of the best movie directors in history is sad
I see you Orson 💙
Wow. Tragic. He makes solid points
Ugh I love him so much
I may have only knew him for playing UNICRON but he speaks the truth
I’ve always loved this snippet.
I think his love of food was more detrimental to his quality of life.
This gentleman is the definition of self-awareness
Having that many regrets would be a sad life to live. It would have to mean you're always living in the past.
Some people are always living in the past, a hell where they’re unable to change.
Not necessarily..
Having regrets diesnt mean you dont strive to improve and live a life of hope.
Orson Welles was a philosopher ❤
I am Wayne and I also fell in love with movies and regret it dearly as well.
“Almost everything.” I fucking love Orson Welles, but nope. Not gonna end up like that. It’s so sad what Hollywood did to him - being completely outcast because he wanted to do things his way - but having regrets is a matter of perspective. That’s why it’s so important to make the number one priority in your life YOU. Not your work, not your career, not your friends, family, etc., but YOU. I know to some people that sounds selfish, but it’s not. You have to take care of yourself and your mind FIRST in order to really be good for other people too. And I don’t mean on the surface. I’m talking way down in the crevices. And I actually think that matters in this industry more than most. There are so many selfish people out for ego strokes here. You better learn how to spot them and know how to protect yourself, so you don’t end up with regrets. But that’s just my two cents.
I do agree with him on one thing. Falling in love with movies, consciously or not, is gonna provide us with MANY obstacles. Let’s just be hyper aware and have as much fun as we can during the journey.
What did Hollywood do to him? He did make himself the number one priority and look where that got him.
@@lampad4549 I don't think you know who Orson Welles is. His films were regularly interfered with and chopped up without his permission, he was outcast and had to make everything on a shoe string budget. He made art his priority, not himself, and although he suffered greatly, he also created works that will survive long after anyone in this comment section has passed on.
Welles’ body clad in a bathrobe, was discovered by his chauffeur, the day before some friends, said he looked pale and gaunt, but seemed cheerful and vitalelles, he was under treatment for a heart condition, and diabetes he had seen a physician, within the last 20 days, he was an enthusiastic eater, a drinker of incredible capacity, addicted to cigars, he was 6'2 and 240 pound's, he once weighed 400 pound's.
Wow. He didn’t feel fulfilled. Seems like he felt like there was so much more to life than movies (which there are) and he feels he didn’t properly get to experience it.
He’s right but I’m glad he fell In love with movies and storytelling
This is a beautiful and honest.
10 films made with love.
Undertale fits so well to this
Rosebud. 🌹
the mystery of life is what you become as you age
I feel the same way about weed & alcohol.
So much time wasted
I love the honesty. I gave my life to Jesus and regret nothing. Praise my King.
I love this man, he's probably full of shit but I could listen to him for hours on end.
Exactly.. i regret lots of things
Damn that’s sad
Life is sad.
I understand what he's saying
Damn I miss this honesty. Living life with “no regrets” is foolish and idiotic. For those who don’t self evaluate.
He was a bull-shitter. PERIOD ❤
That can be said about just about anything. I love video games but I can put them down for a moment to do something else
Regret it now or in ten years times.
Fascinating
Damn he just like me fr
He is right. People who say they have no regret are morons.
The whole "I have no regrets I wouldnt change a single mistake" are just sycophantic moralizers.
Wow, that face. His eyes grab you the whole time. Almost a perfect face for movies too. Ironically. Cuz of what he said I mean.
He watched Leni Riefenstahl propaganda movies before directing Kane
17:48
Well.. This explains his drunk commercial
Music, please?!?!
Rosebud
What is the music in the background?
Sounds like a cover of Fallen Down from Undertale.
Found it I think. Undertale OST - Fallen Down (slowed + reverb)
@@Mr.Smiley_J thank you very much!
Yeah the sappy Undertale music is really adding to the video man, keep it up (don't)
bro spitting
🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Che peccato che non capisco inglese. Trabucco in italiano tutto, ma quando lui parla, non capisco. Povera io. Mi dispiace
Lowest form of conversation is talking about the past.
❤