I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
ATTRIBUTION:
Orson Welles (1915–1984), U.S. filmmaker, actor, producer. Quoted in Frank Brady, Citizen Welles, ch. 8 (1989).
