"I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man,” he tells filmmaker Henry Jaglom. “That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge.” When Jaglom objects that Allen isn’t arrogant but shy, Welles drives on: “Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited.” Allen “hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest,” while, in Allen’s case, “everything he does on screen is therapeutic.”

Allen has what Welles calls “the Chaplin disease,” and Welles’ interviews also feature severe criticisms of Chaplin himself.