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I Was Saying As A Joke The Other Day That I Love Film Editing, I Know How To Cut A Picture, I Think I Know How To Shoot It, But I Don't Know How To Light It. And I Realize It's Because I Didn't Grow Up With Light. I Grew Up In Tenements.

I Grew Up Within Italian-american Neighborhoods, Everybody Was Coming Into The House All The Time, Kids Running Around, That Sort Of Stuff, So When I Finally Got Into My Own Area, So To Speak, To Make Films, I Still Carried On.

[david Lean's] Images Stay With Me Forever. But What Makes Them Memorable Isn't Necessarily Their Beauty. That's Just Good Photography. It's The Emotion Behind Those Images That's Meant The Most To Me Over The Years. It's The Way David Lean Can Put Feeling On Film. The Way He Shows A Whole Landscape Of The Spirit. For Me, That's The Real Geography Of David Lean Country. And That's Why, In A David Lean Movie, There's No Such Thing As An Empty Landscape.

I've Seen Many, Many Movies Over The Years, And There Are Only A Few That Suddenly Inspire You So Much That You Want To Continue To Make Films.