When A Book Is Just A Plot,

I've Always Admired The Tradition Of Storytellers Who Sat In The Public Market And Told Their Stories To Gathered Crowds. They'd Start With A Single Premise And Talk For Hours - The Notion Of One Story, Ever-changing But Never-ending.

I Was Very Glad Later When I Was Directing That I Wasn't In The Hands Of A Cinematographer And Hoping That He Would Do It Well. I Would Know What He Was Doing, And We Could Discuss How That Scene Would Look.

When A Book Is Just A Plot, You Know, Two Men Fight For The Love Of A Woman In A Wild Frontier, I Immediately Ask, 'why?'

Movies Which Set Out To Be 'commercial' Usually Have An Artificial Look About Them-a Certain Waxlike Quality. They Allow For No Failure, No Moment Of Mistake.

Movies Are Not Scripts - Movies Are Films; They're Not Books, They're Not The Theatre. It's A Completely Different Discipline, It Exists On Its Own. I Would Say That The Beauty Of It Is It's Not The Theatre, It's Not Done Over Again. It's Done In Bits And Pieces. Things Are Happening Which You Can't Get Again. I Forbid Anyone To Say "cut", The Soundman, The Operator, Or Whatever.