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When Somebody Who Makes Movies For A Living - Either As An Actor, Writer, Producer Or Director - Lives To Be A Certain Age, You Have To Admire Them. It Is An Act Of Courage To Make A Film - A Courage For Which You Are Not Prepared In The Rest Of Life. It Is Very Hard And Very Destructive. But We Do It Because We Love It.

Film Buffs Who Don't Live In Hollywood Have A Fantasy About What It's Like To Be A Director. Movies And The People Who Make Movies Have Such Glamour Associated With Them. But The Truth Is, It's Not Like That. It's Very Different. It's Hard Work.

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I Have Two Different Categories Of Favorite Films. One Is The Emotional Favorites, Which Means These Are Generally Films That I Saw When I Was A Kid; Anything You See In Your Formative Years Is More Powerful, Because It Really Stays With You Forever. The Second Category Is Films That I Saw While I Was Learning The Craft Of Motion Pictures.

I'm Pretty Happy With Who I Am. I Like Myself And What I'm Doing. I Don't Need To Be The World's Greatest Director Or The Most Famous -- Or The Richest. I Don't Need To Make A Whole Lot Of Great Films. I Can Do My Job And I Can Do It Pretty Well. This Is The Realization I've Come To, Later In Life. It's Called Growing Up.