My Advice To Young Filmmakers Is This:

Man Must Be Able To Recover, To Win Out, Triumph Over Adversity. And I Don't Mean Just The Little Adversity Like Paying His Room Rent Or Something. But Those Deep, Deep Human Adversities Because Something He Has Faith In Has Turned To Ashes. Where Someone He Loves Turns Out To Be Just Another Joke. You Get To The Point Of Suicide. But You Can Bounce Back - They Can't Completely Destroy You.

Man's Greatest Advances Are Weapon Advances. Culture Follows From Weaponry, We Are Militant Like The Animals And Birds - Defending Our Homes. No Matter How Far Back You Go In History, Along With The Struggle For Existence, Along With The Survival Necessities - Kill Or Be Killed, Eat Or Be Eaten - There Is A Hunger For Something Spiritual. He Invents God, Prayers, Incantations To Something Above Him. Why? This Is Not Brought Out - This Is Not Weapon Culture.

One Is Never Completely Satisfied. But I Can Say That I'm Not Dissatisfied. I've Been Very Fortunate. I've Been Given Some Gifts - To Take Advantage Of The Contemporary Times When I Made Movies. Gifts To Make Audiences Laugh.

Capitalism Is Supposedly Free Enterprise. Supposedly About The Free Individual. But Capitalism Itself Is So Massive That The Guy On The Street Gets Caught In Paying Rent, Taxes, And He Doesn't Own Himself At All.

Someone Should Keep Reminding Mr. Average Man That He Was Born Free, Divine, Strong; Uncrushable By Fate, Society, Or Hell Itself; And That He Is A Child Of God, Equal Heir To All The Bounties Of God; And That Goodness Is Riches, Kindness Is Power, And Freedom Is Glory. Above All, Every Man Is Born With An Inner Capacity To Take Him As Far As His Imagination Can Dream Or Envision-providing He Is Free To Dream And Envision.