Q : A critic who admires your work very much said that, in The Trial, you were repeating yourself… Welles : Exactly, I repeated myself. I believe we do it all the time. We always take up certain elements again. How can it be…

“What you learn from that first [film] – and I don’t call it ‘trial by fire’; I call it ‘baptism by fire’ – is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right…