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I've Produced My Own Films For Twenty Years Now - It Means I Have To Talk To Less People.

[stanley] Kubrick Was A Fascinating, Larger Than Life Guy Who Had Been A Friend For Many Years Prior To Our Working Together On That Film. I Found The Best Part Of Working With Him To Be The Long Conversations We Had Between Set-ups.

Relationship Films Are Political. If A Woman Is Sitting In A Waiting Room In An Office And A Man Walks In And Sits Down, It's A Political Situation. If He Decides To Smoke, Does He Ask Her Or Does He Just Light Up? If He Lights Up, What Does She Do? It's Politics.

The Very Reasons Sometimes That You Make A Film Are The Reasons For Its Failure.

I Have To Have A Working Knowledge Of Light, And Optics, Film Emulsions And Their Properties, And Lenses, Otherwise I Can't Create The Shoots That Are The Vocabulary Of The Films. But It Is Not Necessary For Me To Be A Cameraman, I Can Hire A Cameraman.