Any Kind Of Dictatorship, I'm Uneasy. I

Man's Greatest Advances Are Weapon Advances. Culture Follows From Weaponry, We Are Militant Like The Animals And Birds - Defending Our Homes. No Matter How Far Back You Go In History, Along With The Struggle For Existence, Along With The Survival Necessities - Kill Or Be Killed, Eat Or Be Eaten - There Is A Hunger For Something Spiritual. He Invents God, Prayers, Incantations To Something Above Him. Why? This Is Not Brought Out - This Is Not Weapon Culture.

A Hunch Is Creativity Trying To Tell You Something.

My Advice To Young Filmmakers Is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

Everybody Who Works Under Any System Feels Confined. It Is A Natural Reaction. You Are Confined To A Certain Extent. You Are Confined If You Work In A Bank, If You Paint. You Are Confined, In A Sense, To Your Art - The Enclosure Of Your Mind. Everybody Should Break Out.

There Are A Lot Of People Who Believe That The Individual Can't Make It Himself. And That's Why People Want To Join Up In Various Herds - Herd Formation. So You Become Part Of A Herd, A Group. Group Power Of Some Kind. There's An Awful Lot Of Group Power People In Our Country [the Usa] - Black Power, Chinese Power, Indian Power, Woman Power. Everyone Is Putting In Together.