In an interview on Film Directing

Your next book is This is Orson Welles by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich.

Orson Welles has always been my favourite director. I remember catching films of his late at night. One of the first films I saw of his was Touch of Evil; I had never seen anything like it. And the book is incredibly inspiring. He is sitting down with his friend Peter Bogdanovich, who is another great film director, and the two of them just talk about Orson Welles’s career. Welles is a great conversationalist.

A lot of people say it is such a shame he had such problems financing his films. But I think that actually if you look at the way he speaks and the life he led ­– that is as much as anyone else has done. It’s just intriguing to see the way he talks about his life. There is no regret and no bitterness, just an amazing force of life.