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But it seems to me that that was something that, you know, you could relate to Welles' theater work only in the way of reusing sets in very imaginative ways. Sure, sure, exactly. Yeah, this was not a big-budget film. He had gotten into trouble with Heart of Darkness because the budget estimates kept coming in so high. And he was careful about this one. He didn't waste any studio money. But one of the things that's, I think...
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He really didn't do that. Many other more successful directors wasted money. Howard Hawks went way over budget in several of his films. Hitchcock did. But Welles stayed within the financial parameters that were set for him. By the way, there's a point in which he...
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