Famous Quotes | Charles Foster Kane: Look, Mr....

Charles Foster Kane: Look, Mr. Carter. Here is a three-column headline in the Chronicle. Why hasn’t the Inquirer a three-column headline?
Carter: News wasn’t big enough.
Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough. - Orson Welles, Herman J. Manckiewicz
Attribution: Orson Welles (1915–1985), U.S. filmmaker, actor, producer, and Herman J. Manckiewicz (1897–1953), U.S. screenwriter. Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), Carter (Erskine Sanford), Citizen Kane, new owner Kane to his editor-in-chief (1941).

Categories: Actor, Filmmaker, Headlines, Newspaper, Newspapers And Magazines, Producer, Screenwriter

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