I Am Profoundly Skeptical About Our Abilities

A Movie Is Like A Tip Of An Iceberg, In A Way, Because So Little Of What You Do In Connection With Making A Movie Actually Gets Into The Movie. Almost Everything Gets Left Behind.

But There's A Big Difference Between, Say, Reporting On A Story And Simply Making Up A Story.

I Believe That We Face Incredible Obstacles In Our Attempts To See The World. Everything In Our Nature Tries To Deny The World Around Us; To Refabricate It In Our Own Image; To Reinvent It For Our Own Benefit. And So, It Becomes Something Of A Challenge, A Task, To Recover (or At Least Attempt To Recover) The Real World Despite All The Impediments To That End.

Certain Kinds Of Intimacy Emerge On A Phone Call That Might Never Occur If You Were Sitting Right Next To The Other Person.

Robert Nozick [a Havard Philosopher, Famous For His Book "anarchy, State And Utopia"] Defined Revenge As Delivering The Message That You Know What Someone Has Done, And It Doesn't Involve Hurting Them Or Doing Anything To Them Beyond That. It's Just Delivering The Message That Their Crime Has Been Noted Not Just By Its Victims, Because The Victim Might Be Dead, But By Another Who Has A Different Moral View And Will Challenge The Perpetrator's View.