Know What It Is The Emotional Statement

Shooting A Movie Is The Worst Milieu For Creative Work Ever Devised By Man.

The Director's Job Is To Know What Emotional Statement He Wants A Character To Convey In His Scene Or His Line, And To Exercise Taste And Judgment In Helping The Actor Give His Best Possible Performance.

Art Consists Of Reshaping Life But It Does Not Create Life, Nor Cause Life.

You're Free To Speculate As You Wish About The Philosophical And Allegorical Meaning Of The Film—and Such Speculation Is One Indication That It Has Succeeded In Gripping The Audience At A Deep Level—but I Don't Want To Spell Out A Verbal Road Map For 2001 That Every Viewer Will Feel Obligated To Pursue Or Else Fear He's Missed The Point.

God Has A Hard-on For A Marine Because We Kill Everything We See. He Plays His Game, We Play Ours.