Gee, I Wish We Had One Of

Critical Opinion On My Films Has Always Been Salvaged By What I Would Call Subsequent Critical Opinion.

I Do Not Always Know What I Want, But I Do Know What I Don't Want.

Chess Teaches You To Control The Initial Excitement You Feel When You See Something That Looks Good And It Trains You To Think Objectively When You're In Trouble

The Reality Of The Final Moment, Just Before Shooting [the Scene], Is So Powerful That All Previous Analysis Must Yield Before The Impressions You Receive Under These Circumstances, And Unless You Use This Feedback To Your Positive Advantage, Unless You Adjust To It, Adapt To It And Accept The Sometimes Terrifying Weaknesses It Can Expose, You Can Never Realize The Most Out Of Your Film.

The World's Religions, For All Their Parochialism, Did Supply A Kind Of Consolation For This Great Ache. This Shattering Recognition Of Our Mortality Is At The Root Of Far More Mental Illness Than I Suspect Even Psychiatrists Are Aware.