There Have Always Been And There Always

It Creeps Up On You And Becomes An Obsession. It Comes Out Of Watching A Million Movies.

I Can't Negotiate And Collaborate With A Character To Create A Distilled Dramatic Investigation Of The Raw Material. I Need To Work With An Actor. That Stuff About Actors Who Stay In Character All The Time Is Nonsense.

I Think Michael Caine Is A Perfectly Good Actor But It's Obvious He's Not Going To Be In One Of My Films.

My Work Is About Life As You And I Experience It. You're Either Lucky Or You're Not Lucky; Either Your Relationship Works Or It Doesn't.

It's Important To Be True To The Events, But The Most Important Thing Is To Get To The Essence Of The Experience. Not To Be Bogged Down In An Academic Way By A Notion Of The Truth. First Of All, The Truth Is An Illusive And Spurious Concept.