Acting Is A Lot Easier Than People

I Read Reviews Of Critics I Respect And Feel I Can Learn Something From. Right Now There Are A Lot Of Bottom-feeder Critics Who Just Have Access To A Computer And Don't Necessarily Have An Academic Or Cinema Background That I Can Detect, So I Tend To Ignore That And Stay With The Same Top-tier Critics That I've Come To Respect. I Like Reading A Good Review - It Doesn't Have To Be Favorable, But A Well-thought-out One - Because I Very Much Appreciate The Relationship Of Directors And Critics.

In A General Sense, To Convert Any Short Story, Novel, Play, Or Opera Into A Movie, You Have To Re-rig It. Even Though They're All Narratives Over Time, They're Very Different Forms.

I Think If You Watch Most Of My Films With The Sound Off, You Could Still Tell What's Going On.

It Seems That Our Politicians See The World In Black And White, So Why Not Our Artists? Did Woody Allen's 'manhattan' Have To Be In Black And White? No. But Is It Fantastic That It Was? To See New York Like That? Yes!

A Lot Of Documentaries Have Been Made Very Quickly, But I Think They're Like Frogs In An Ecosystem: They're Harbingers. Film Is Always Two Or Three Years Behind, Because It Takes So Long To Write A Script, Get Financing, And Get It Made. It Just Takes A While. But I Think It's Coming. It Has To.