Your Characters Have To Remain Innocent Of

And In Movies You Must Be A Gambler. To Produce Films Is To Gamble.

Your Characters Have To Remain Innocent Of What Your Picture Is After.

I Was Making Films About American Society, And It Is True That I Never Felt At Home There, Except Perhaps When My Wife And I Lived On A Farm In The San Fernando Valley. But I Always Wanted My Characters To Be More Than Cyphers For The Failings Of Their World. And I Never Had To Look Too Hard To Find A Part Of Myself In Them

You Have To Think With The Heart.

Your Camera Is The Best Critic There Is. Critics Never See As Much As The Camera Does. It Is More Perceptive Than The Human Eye.