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That's Part Of The Requirement For Me To Be An Artist Is That You're Trying To Share Your Personal Existence With Others And Trying To Illuminate Modern Life, Trying To Understand Life.

When Newspapers Started To Publish The Box Office Scores Of Movies, I Was Horrified. Those Results Are Totally Fake Because They Never Include The Promotion Budget.

I Don't Go On Set With An Army Of People Because The Most Expensive Elements Of A Movie Production Are The Plane Tickets, The Hotel Rooms, Food And Gasoline. If You're Willing To Discover New Colleagues In The Place That You Are, You Can Save A Ton Of Money.

Although Knowledge Of Structure Is Helpful, Real Creativity Comes From Leaps Of Faith In Which You Jump To Something Illogical. But Those Leaps Form The Memorable Moments In Movies And Plays.

I Always Knew What I Thought The Theme Was, The Core, In One Word. In 'the Godfather' It Was Succession. In 'the Conversation' It Was Privacy. In 'apocalypse' It Was Morality.