Awesome Welles

[Martin Cassini]

Last night’s Culture Show had a clip of the BBC Arts programme, Monitor, in which Huw Wheldon asked Orson Welles, "You had never made a film before, so where did you get the confidence to make Citizen Kane?" Welles replied, "Ignorance!" Commenting on the clip, Stephen Frears said, "The more you know about a subject, the more aware you are of the problems, and the less adventurous you become" (or words to that effect). Is there a parallel here between my proposals for traffic system reform, and resistance from traffic experts?