DEUS

Welles: Among those whom I would call “younger generation” Kubrick appears to me to be a giant.

Interviewer: But, for example, The Killing was more or less a copy of The Ashphalt Jungle?

Welles: Yes, but The Killing was better. The problem of imitation leaves me indifferent, above all if the imitator succeeds in surpassing the model… What I see in him is a talent not possessed by the great directors of the generation immediately preceding his… Perhaps this is because his temperament comes closer to mine.