The Most Important Thing Is The Script.

Young Film Makers Should Learn How To Deal With The Money And Learn How To Deal With The Power Structure. Because It Is Like A Battle.

And As I've Gotten Older, I've Had More Of A Tendency To Look For People Who Live By Kindness, Tolerance, Compassion, A Gentler Way Of Looking At Things.

My Father Had This Mythological Sense Of The Old New York, And He Used To Tell Me Stories About These Old Gangs, Particularly The Forty Thieves In The Fourth Ward.

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.

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.