In Film, We Sculpt Time, We Sculpt

People Will Say, 'there Are A Million Ways To Shoot A Scene,' But I Don't Think So. I Think There Are Two, Maybe. And The Other One Is Wrong.

Directing Ain't About Drawing A Neat Little Picture And Showing It To The Cameraman. I Didn't Want To Go To Film School. I Didn't Know What The Point Was. The Fact Is, You Don't Know What Directing Is Until The Sun Is Setting And You've Got To Get Five Shots And You're Only Going To Get Two.

Movies Aren't Finished, They're Abandoned. And You Have To Make Your Peace With That.

Filmmaking Isn’t If You Can Just Strap On A Camera Onto An Actor, And Steadicam, And Point It At Their Face, And Follow Them Through The Movie, That Is Not What Moviemaking Is, That Is Not What It’s About. It’s Not Just About Getting A Performance. It’s Also About The Psychology Of The Cinematic Moment, And The Psychology Of The Presentation Of That, Of That Window.

If I See A Movie For The First Time On Dvd, I Watch It All The Way Through, The Lights Are Down, I Don't Pick Up The Phone. The Third Or Fourth Time You See A Movie, Sometimes You Just Have Them On And You Check In Every Once In A While With Things That You Liked. I Think It's A Different Expectations From That Environment.