One Does Not Have To Make Frank

Any Time You Take A Chance You Better Be Sure The Rewards Are Worth The Risk Because They Can Put You Away Just As Fast For A Ten Dollar Heist As They Can For A Million Dollar Job.

I Never Learned Anything At All In School And Didn't Read A Book For Pleasure Until I Was 19 Years Old.

The Most Terrifying Fact About The Universe Not That It Is Hostile But That It Is Indifferent

Some People Demand A Five-line Capsule Summary. Something You'd Read In A Magazine. They Want You To Say, 'this Is The Story Of The Duality Of Man And The Duplicity Of Governments.' I Hear People Try To Do It -- Give The Five-line Summary -- But If A Film Has Any Substance Or Subtlety, Whatever You Say Is Never Complete, It's Usually Wrong, And It's Necessarily Simplistic: Truth Is Too Multifaceted To Be Contained In A Five-line Summary. If The Work Is Good, What You Say About It Is Usually Irrelevant.

Perhaps It Sounds Ridiculous, But The Best Thing That Young Filmmakers Should Do Is To Get Hold Of A Camera And Some Film And Make A Movie Of Any Kind At All.