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The Very Meaninglessness Of Life Forces Man To Create His Own Meaning. If It Can Be Written Or Thought, It Can Be Filmed.

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.

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.

[making Movies] You're Not Trying To Capture Reality, You're Trying To Capture A Photograph Of Reality.

Either You Care, Or You Don't. There's No In-between. And If You Care, Then Go All Of The Way.