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In Making Movies, Time Is So Short-because It Is So Expensive-that We Tend To Neglect The Place From Which The Best Ideas Come, Namely That Part Of Ourselves That Dreams. The Unconscious Is Our Best Collaborator.

All The Theories That Acting Is Reacting To Imaginary Circumstances As Though They Are Real, And Directing Is Turning Psychology Into Behavior, Those Are All Stabs At Something That Can't Be Taught. All The Great Actors Can't Talk About What They Do, And They Don't Want To Begin To Talk About It. They Just Do It.

If You Want To Be A Legend, God Help You, It's So Easy. You Just Do One Thing. You Can Be The Master Of Suspense, Say. But If You Want To Be As Invisible As Is Practical, Then It's Fun To Do A Lot Of Different Things.

It's Not A Filmmaker's Job To Explain His Technique But To Tell His Story The Best Way He Can.

The Unconscious Is Our Best Collaborator.