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The Bottom Line Is, I Tend To Be Going Back To Older And Older Music.

Orson Welles Was A Force Of Nature, Who Just Came In And Wiped The Slate Clean. And Citizen Kane Is The Greatest Risk-taking Of All Time In Film. I Don’t Think Anything Had Even Seen Anything Quite Like It. The Photography Was Also Unlike Anything We’d Seen. The Odd Coldness Of The Filmmaker Towards The Character Reflects His Own Egomania And Power, And Yet A Powerful Empathy For All Of Them--it’s Very Interesting. It Still Holds Up, And It’s Still Shocking. It Takes Storytelling And Throws It Up In The Air.

I Just - I Kind Of See It That Way. I Find The Higher Angles Down. I Do - Look, You Can Go Back To The Staircase Shots In "third Man" Or The Staircase In "la Dolce Vita." So I Just Find That Visual Construction In A Frame.

I Know There Were Many Good Policemen Who Died Doing Their Duty. Some Of The Cops Were Even Friends Of Ours. But A Cop Can Go Both Ways.

Always Get To The Set Or The Location Early, So That You Can Be All Alone And Draw Your Inspiration For The Blocking And The Setups In Private And Quiet.