It's A Mistake To Confuse Pity With

You're An Idealist, And I Pity You As I Would The Village Idiot.

From The Very Beginning, All Of My Films Have Divided The Critics. Some Have Thought Them Wonderful, And Others Have Found Very Little Good To Say. But Subsequent Critical Opinion Has Always Resulted In A Very Remarkable Shift To The Favorable. In One Instance, The Same Critic Who Originally Rapped The Film Has Several Years Later Put It On An All-time Best List. But Of Course, The Lasting And Ultimately Most Important Reputation Of A Film Is Not Based On Reviews, But On What, If Anything, People Say About It Over The Years, And On How Much Affection For It They Have.

Shooting A Movie Is The Worst Milieu For Creative Work Ever Devised By Man.

Anybody Who Runs Is A Vc. Anybody Who Stands Still Is A Well-disciplined Vc.

A Filmmaker Has Almost The Same Freedom As A Novelist Has When He Buys Himself Some Paper.