A Film Needs More Than You Can

All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy.

I Don't Think That Writers Or Painters Or Filmmakers Function Because They Have Something They Particularly Want To Say. They Have Something That They Feel. And They Like The Art Form; They Like Words, Or The Smell Of Paint, Or Celluloid And Photographic Images And Working With Actors. I Don't Think That Any Genuine Artist Has Ever Been Oriented By Some Didactic Point Of View, Even If He Thought He Was.

I Have Always Enjoyed Dealing With A Slightly Surrealistic Situation And Presenting It In A Realistic Manner. I've Always Liked Fairy Tales And Myths, Magical Stories. I Think They Are Somehow Closer To The Sense Of Reality One Feels Today Than The Equally Stylized 'realistic' Story In Which A Great Deal Of Selectivity And Omission Has To Occur In Order To Preserve Its 'realist' Style.

I Haven't Had One Sexual Thought Since The Court Martial.

You Sit At The Board And Suddenly Your Heart Leaps. Your Hand Trembles To Pick Up The Piece And Move It. But What Chess Teaches You Is That You Must Sit There Calmly And Think About Whether It's Really A Good Idea And Whether There Are Other, Better Ideas.