What Do You Take Me For? A

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

It's A Passion When You're Doing It For Other People And You're Doing It For The People Around You Making The Film And The People Who Are Going To See The Film, And The Giving. When You Start Thinking About You Doing It For Some Sort Of Self-gain, Then I Think It Becomes An Obsession. It Becomes A Negative Experience.

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.

Know What It Is The Emotional Statement To Convey, And Use Taste And Judgement To Help The Actors Give Their Best Possible Performance.

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.