This Is How Good Movies Get Made

I Think That Peter Jennings Is The Only Decent One Of The Big Three.

I Could Never Be A Part Of An Adaptation Of A Film Where There's Pressure To Not Disappoint The Immense Fan Base. In Those Cases, They Often Wind Up With Filmed Books On Tape, Quite Uncinematic. Having Said That, I'd Say All The Adaptations I've Done Are Quite Faithful To The Original... You Have To Pick And Choose Which Storylines And Plot Threads, Because You Don't Have The Time To Kill In The Film As They Have In Novels. All Those Pages With Detours And Plots And Different Storylines. But Films Add A Lot, And You Gotta Keep It Moving.

The Thing Is, Right Now The Films Don't Need To Be Overtly Political To Be About Our Times. We Also Need Films That Are Just Human, That Are About People. People Need That, Too. It's Like We Need To Reconnect To What It Is To Be Human. Not Just What Our Political Situation Is. That's Not What I'm Thinking About Exclusively. Human Content Is Needed Again, As It Was In The '70s. I Think Films Were More Human Than They've Been Since Then.

If You Were Falling In Love And You Could Go Back In Time And Relive A Day And See The Banal Things You Did That You'd Forgotten About, You'd Weep, Looking At That Day.

Whenever I'm Asked About Independent Cinema, I Think Of What Fidel Castro Said During The Cold War About The League Of Non-aligned Nations. He Said That Really, There Were Only Two Non-aligned Nations: The U.s. And The Ussr. The Rest Of Us Have To Be Aligned Somewhere. I Say Similarly, In A Way, Paramount, Sony, And Warner Bros. Are The Only True Independents, Because They're The Only Ones Who Can Do Whatever They Want And Have Distribution For Their Films Built In.