I'm Happy - At Times - Making

The Reality Of The Final Moment, Just Before Shooting [the Scene], Is So Powerful That All Previous Analysis Must Yield Before The Impressions You Receive Under These Circumstances, And Unless You Use This Feedback To Your Positive Advantage, Unless You Adjust To It, Adapt To It And Accept The Sometimes Terrifying Weaknesses It Can Expose, You Can Never Realize The Most Out Of Your Film.

Never Say No To An Idea - You Never Know How That Idea Will Ignite Another Idea.

I'm Not Saying We Wouldn't Get Our Hair Mussed, Mr. President, But I Do Say Not More Than Ten To Twenty Million Dead Depending Upon The Breaks.

There's Something In The Human Personality Which Resents Things That Are Clear, And Conversely, Something Which Is Attracted To Puzzles, Enigmas, And Allegories.

I Don't Think That Writers Or Painters Or Filmmakers Function Because They Have Something They Particularly Want To Say. They Have Something That They Feel. And They Like The Art Form; They Like Words, Or The Smell Of Paint, Or Celluloid And Photographic Images And Working With Actors. I Don't Think That Any Genuine Artist Has Ever Been Oriented By Some Didactic Point Of View, Even If He Thought He Was.