"In the case of 'Macbeth' (1948), a film that Welles shot in a little over 30 days at Republic Pictures, he had the audacity to have the actors speak with a Scottish brogue. And at the time the English were in a firestorm over it, and unfortunately American culture revered whatever the English had to say about Shakespeare. But the setting is Scotland! So at some point, the studio said, 'You've got to come in and redo this' " — meaning, have the actors re-record their dialogue, minus the Scottish accents — "and he began doing it and then eventually said, 'I'm not doing this anymore,' so they had to re-edit the film to compensate for some of that obvious inconsistency they were left with. That was a ridiculous situation."