I Think It's A Terrible Shame That

Making A Film Is A Way For Me To Understand What It's Like To Be A Murderer, To Confess, To Be A Beaten Wife, To Be A Minority, To Be A Victor, To Get The Girl, To Lose The Girl. I Can Do All Of That Through The Practice Of An Art Form.

When You Make A Film You Usually Make A Film About An Idea.

With A Movie You're Creating From The Beginning This Particular Work, Let's Not Call It Work Of Art, Because Very Few Movies Are Works Of Art, Let's Just Call Them Bits Of Popular Culture, Whatever They Are, Sometimes Very Rarely By Accident A Movie Becomes A Work Of Art.

Once I Start To Do A Film, It Has Inferences. If A Guy Walks Down A Street And Kicks A Dog, You're Saying Something About That Guy. A Guy Walks Down The Street And Somebody's About To Be Run Over And He Shoves Him Out Of His Way And Gets Hit By The Car Himself, You're Saying That Guy's A Hero. You Can't Avoid Making Certain Statements.

You Can Be Moderate In A Way And Still Intense In Your Views. It's The Extremism That Gets Frightening; Religious Fundamentalism And Wacko-left Liberalism Is Crazy.