Like The Man Said, Can Happiness Buy

If You Can Talk Brilliantly About A Problem, It Can Create The Consoling Illusion That It Has Been Mastered.

Some People Demand A Five-line Capsule Summary. Something You'd Read In A Magazine. They Want You To Say, 'this Is The Story Of The Duality Of Man And The Duplicity Of Governments.' I Hear People Try To Do It -- Give The Five-line Summary -- But If A Film Has Any Substance Or Subtlety, Whatever You Say Is Never Complete, It's Usually Wrong, And It's Necessarily Simplistic: Truth Is Too Multifaceted To Be Contained In A Five-line Summary. If The Work Is Good, What You Say About It Is Usually Irrelevant.

My Period As A Young Teenager When You Really Listen To Music So You Can Get Understand A Little Bit More About What The Music Is Was, Say, 1965 To 1968. I Was Just Lucky To Be In Those Times.

I'm Happy - At Times - Making Films. I'm Certainly Unhappy Not Making Films.

A Filmmaker Has Almost The Same Freedom As A Novelist Has When He Buys Himself Some Paper.