Touch of Shakespeare: Welles unmoors Othello (1).(Orson Welles) From: Shakespeare Bulletin | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Newstok, Scott L. | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of West Georgia. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

[I]f it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if it were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

--Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

The most detestable habit in all modern cinema is the homage. I don't want to see another goddamn homage in anybody's movie. There are enough of them which are unconscious.

--Orson Welles, at the Cinematheque francaise

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