"After watching the footage (of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND),
Oliver Stone told Kodar and Graver, 'It's too experimental.'
George Lucas, who could bankroll the completion (of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND) by signing a check from petty cash, declined to do so. (...Graver recalls) 'After Orson died, I showed Lucas THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND in
Steven Spielberg's projection room. Lucas just shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't know what to do with it, that it wasn't commercial.'
"
Clint Eastwood, whose work as a director Welles admired, asked to see the rough cut after Welles's death. But it turned out that he was only interested in studying Houston's performance so he could imitate him in WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART..."
from WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ORSON WELLES? by Joseph McBride.
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