Nothing Is As Dangerous As A Sure

The Director's Job Is To Know What Emotional Statement He Wants A Character To Convey In His Scene Or His Line, And To Exercise Taste And Judgment In Helping The Actor Give His Best Possible Performance.

The Destruction Of This Planet Would Have No Significance On A Cosmic Scale: To An Observer In The Andromeda Nebula, The Sign Of Our Extinction Would Be No More Than A Match Flaring For A Second In The Heavens: And If That Match Does Blaze In The Darkness There Will Be None To Mourn A Race That Used A Power That Could Have Lit A Beacon In The Stars To Light Its Funeral Pyre. The Choice Is Ours.

It's Impossible To Tell You What I'm Going To Do Except To Say That I Expect To Make The Best Movie Ever Made.

The Hardest Thing In Making A Movie Is To Keep In The Front Of Your Consciousness Your Original Response To The Material. Because That's Going To Be The Thing That Will Make The Movie. And The Loss Of That Will Break The Movie.

A Film Is - Or Should Be - More Like Music Than Like Fiction.