A Movie Is Made For An Audience

A Movie Is Made For An Audience And A Film Is Made For Both The Audience And The Film-makers.

Filmmaking Isn’t If You Can Just Strap On A Camera Onto An Actor, And Steadicam, And Point It At Their Face, And Follow Them Through The Movie, That Is Not What Moviemaking Is, That Is Not What It’s About. It’s Not Just About Getting A Performance. It’s Also About The Psychology Of The Cinematic Moment, And The Psychology Of The Presentation Of That, Of That Window.

When You Go And You Tell A Studio And That It's An Ensemble, That Doesn't Mean A Lot To Them. But, My Hats Off To Paramount And Warner Brothers, Because When We Told Them That These Were The Kinds Of People That We Want To Get, Across The Board, They Were Unbelieveably Enthusiastic About It.

For A Number Of Years, I'd Been Around The Kind Of People Who Financed Movies And The Kind Of People Who Are There To Make The Deals For Movies. But I'd Always Had This Naive Idea That Everybody Wants To Make Movies As Good As They Can Be, Which Is Stupid.

And I Love Shooting Football.