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Automatic Simply Means That You Can?t Repair It Yourself.

Scriptwriting Is The Toughest Part Of The Whole Racket... The Least Understood And The Least Noticed

Capitalism Is Supposedly Free Enterprise. Supposedly About The Free Individual. But Capitalism Itself Is So Massive That The Guy On The Street Gets Caught In Paying Rent, Taxes, And He Doesn't Own Himself At All.

No Saint, No Pope, No General, No Sultan, Has Ever Had The Power That A Filmmaker Has; The Power To Talk To Hundreds Of Millions Of People For Two Hours In The Dark.

I Think Of The Medium As A People-to-people Medium, Not Cameraman-to-people, Not Direction-to-people, Not Writers-to-people, But People-to-peopleyou Can Only Involve An Audience With People. You Can't Involve Them With Gimmicks, With Sunsets, With Hand-held Cameras, Zoom Shots, Or Anything Else. They Couldn't Care Less About Those Things. But You Give Them Something To Worry About, Some Person They Can Worry About, And Care About, And You've Got Them, You've Got Them Involved.