The scene is a hotel room in Paris. The year 1960. The star, Orson Welles. A vintage interview captures the artist reflecting on Citizen Kane and expounding on directing, acting, writing and his desire to bestow a valuable legacy upon his profession. This is a pearl of cinematic memorabilia. Orson Welles is interviewed in his Paris hotel by Bernard Braden. He discusses his career, his interest in politics, critics, his work on second-rate films in order to pay for productions he really wanted to do, his lack of a home town, and his desire to live in Spain. In the interview, Welles discusses the advantage to an actor of having a good voice, the impossibility of acting the epileptic fit scene in OTHELLO, the lack of a sense of "period" among American actors, directing himself in films, the part of Harry Lyme in THE THIRD MAN, MONSIEUR VERDOUX, which he wrote for Charlie Chaplin and would have liked to have directed, actors forming their own companies, employing friends and regretting it, CITIZEN KANE, the technical achievement and Gregg Toland"s genius as a cameraman, wanting to do something which would leave the profession better for having done it, and television as an inferior form of entertainment.