This is Orson Welles [B0170]

1992 HCDJ 1st edition. Filmmaker, radio celebrity, actor, writer, producer, painter, magician--Orson Welles (1915-1985) did it all. This collection of fascinating and revealing conversations between Welles and his longtime friend Peter Bogdanovich gives readers an intimate look at this truly Renaissance man - and Welles's true feelings about films, theater, the radio and television industries, and various Hollywood directors and stars. Includes 82 black-and-white photos.

From Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I found this endlessly more rewarding and revealing than I expected, though I'd recommend reading at least one biography of Welles beforehand, so you can spot the bullshit. Orson is captivating when talking about his own work, extraordinarily insightful on the subject of film theory, and inaccurate though amusing on Hollywood, though his compulsive need to fictionalize his past is very strange. Isn't being the greatest film director who ever lived achievement enough?"; "I can't help it, I love this grumpy old ham of a man."; "One of the best film books I've ever read, easy."; "In 'F for Fake' Welles gleefully tells his audience, I told you I will tell you the truth for an hour, well that hour was over twenty minutes ago and since then I have been lying my head off. Knowing the trickster he was, and how he could spin a story, why would you believe a word he says in this, his autobiography. The point is it does not matter, and he knows it. The stories are great, and if they aren't true they should be. Presented as a series of interviews over twenty years, a fascinating book on the likes we will defiantly never see again from a bygone era."