Help with a quote

[halfaorson]

Hi everybody.
I remember long time ago, reading in an interview Orson talking about the eye that kills. Not the novel or the movie, he was talking about his eye, whenever he was going to examinate some possible location for his movies...I hope this suggest you something, because i'd like to know which interview was, or maybe was the bogdanovich one. Any clue? Also, please post every link to any Orson interview on the web, thanks thanks thanks.

[halfaorson]

Let me try to be more clear...he says something like when he watches too long a possible location, it's like it dies for him, it dies before he films it. Any suggestioN?

[Store Hadji]

That sounds like something he said to Bogdanovich, I forget whether in the print version or on the tapes. I seem to remember him saying he has to keep shooting or the film dies. Other directors liken that to a train chugging along, that they have to keep throwing track in front of it to keep it going, or it will wreck and the film will die. Still other directors say this is complete nonsense.

The quote I want to find, which I believe is buried in one of Welles' Harry Lime radio scripts, is where Welles stated explicitly what the moon symbolized for him. In middle age onwards he was completely evasive about it, saying the moon was very important to him yet refusing to explain it at all. Damn that hole in my memory that the answer fell through, for I had found it at one point.

[halfaorson]

Thanks. If anybody could help more with this, i'd really appreciate it, i really need to find it. thanks again

[NoFake]

I think he said something about what the moon meant to him in his conversation with USC students after they'd seen THE TRIAL...

[ToddBaesen]

A Welles quote from Bogdanovich on page 173 covers this:

When I shoot on location, I sense and see the place in such a violent way that now--when I look at those places again--they're like tombs, completely dead.

Interesting, in that if John Ford felt the same way, we'd only have "Stagecoach" of all of his many films that used Monument Valley to such beautifully poetic effect.