A Film Needs More Than You Can

I've Got A Peculiar Weakness For Criminals And Artists. Neither Takes Life As It Is. Any Tragic Story Has To Be In Conflict With Things As They Are.

I've Never Achieved Spectacular Success With A Film. My Reputation Has Grown Slowly. I Suppose You Could Say That I'm A Successful Filmmaker-in That A Number Of People Speak Well Of Me. But None Of My Films Have Received Unanimously Positive Reviews, And None Have Done Blockbuster Business.

Either You Care, Or You Don't. There's No In-between. And If You Care, Then Go All Of The Way.

What Do You Take Me For? A Fourteen Karat Sucker?

From The Very Beginning, All Of My Films Have Divided The Critics. Some Have Thought Them Wonderful, And Others Have Found Very Little Good To Say. But Subsequent Critical Opinion Has Always Resulted In A Very Remarkable Shift To The Favorable. In One Instance, The Same Critic Who Originally Rapped The Film Has Several Years Later Put It On An All-time Best List. But Of Course, The Lasting And Ultimately Most Important Reputation Of A Film Is Not Based On Reviews, But On What, If Anything, People Say About It Over The Years, And On How Much Affection For It They Have.