The Best Pictures Are Yet To Be

Scriptwriting Is The Toughest Part Of The Whole Racket... The Least Understood And The Least Noticed

Any Kind Of Dictatorship, I'm Uneasy. I Just Don't Like Dictators. I Don't Like Crowds. I Don't Like Hordes, And I Don't Like Other People Telling Me What To Do. This Is Probably A Reaction Against People Telling Me What To Do When I Was A Kid. I Won't Join Any Group, Espouse A Cause Against Some Other People.

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.

I Think Of The Medium As A People-to-people Medium, Not Cameraman-to-people, Not Direction-to-people, Not Writers-to-people, But People-to-peopleyou Can Only Involve An Audience With People. You Can't Involve Them With Gimmicks, With Sunsets, With Hand-held Cameras, Zoom Shots, Or Anything Else. They Couldn't Care Less About Those Things. But You Give Them Something To Worry About, Some Person They Can Worry About, And Care About, And You've Got Them, You've Got Them Involved.

Man Is A Unique Individual. He Can Never Be Put In A System Where He Becomes Just Another Notch. Another Nail.