The Only Way I Was Able To

I Was Rather Shaken By All The Green Trees. I Always Am. It Gets Me. I Don't Want To Be Funny About It But I Am. I Loved Seeing All The Westerns, But I Had Asthma And Couldn't Go Anywhere, But I Loved Watching Them In Technicolor And Seeing The Cowboys And The Landscapes Of Monument Valley And You'd See The Forests Of The Anthony Mann Films And Think, 'wow, That's Fantastic', But I Could Never Go There!

I Look For A Thematic Idea Running Through My Movies And I See That It's The Outsider Struggling For Recognition. I Realize That All My Life I've Been An Outsider, And Above All, Being Lonely But Never Realizing It.

I'm Not A Hollywood Director. I'm An In Spite Of Hollywood Director.

Death Comes In A Flash, And That's The Truth Of It, The Person's Gone In Less Than 24 Frames Of Film.

I Always Tell The Younger Filmmakers And Students: Do It Like The Painters Used To...study They Old Masters. Enrich Your Palette. Expand The Canvas. There's Always So Much More To Learn.