Scriptwriting Is The Toughest Part Of The

No Saint, No Pope, No General, No Sultan, Has Ever Had The Power That A Filmmaker Has; The Power To Talk To Hundreds Of Millions Of People For Two Hours In The Dark.

There Are A Lot Of People Who Believe That The Individual Can't Make It Himself. And That's Why People Want To Join Up In Various Herds - Herd Formation. So You Become Part Of A Herd, A Group. Group Power Of Some Kind. There's An Awful Lot Of Group Power People In Our Country [the Usa] - Black Power, Chinese Power, Indian Power, Woman Power. Everyone Is Putting In Together.

Most Ideologies Of The World Are Not For The Individual. They're Against The Individual. Communism, Fascism. Any Kind Of An Ism - Almost - They're Against The Individual.

I Think The Human Spirit Is A Real Powerful Spirit. It Has No Limits And It Has No Ends. And I Hate To See It Put In Any Kind Of Box - Pink Or Green.

If The Audience Gets Everything, If They See The Photography And Notice That It Is Good, Then The Story Goes Out The Window, But If You Become Involved With The Lives Of The Actors And Forget That You Are Seeing Mechanical Devices On A Huge Screen - Forget The Make-believe - This Is The Job Of The Director To Involve The Audience With The Actors.