But, In Each Case, As A Filmmaker

It's Very Important That A Film That Intends To Play Tricks On The Audience... Has To Play Fair With The Audience. For Me, Any Time You're Going To Have A Reveal In The Film, It's Essential That It Have Been Shown To The Audience As Much As Possible. What That Means Is That Some People Are Going To Figure It Out Very Early On. Other People Not Til The End. Everybody Watches The Film Differently.

Film Is The Best Way To Capture An Image And Project That Image. It Just Is, Hands Down.

You're Never Going To Learn Something As Profoundly As When It's Purely Out Of Curiosity

The Thing You Fail To Grasp Is That People Are Not Basically Good. We Are Basically Selfish. We Shove And Clamour And Cry For Adoration, And Beat Down Everyone Else To Get It. Life Is A Competition Of Prattling Peacocks Enraptured In Inane Mating Rituals. But For All Our Effacing And Self-importance, We Are All Slaves To What We Fear Most. You Have So Very Much To Learn. Here. Let Me Teach You.

What I React Against In Other People's Work, As A Filmgoer, Is When I See Something In A Movie That I Feel Is Supposed To Make Me Feel Emotional, But I Don't Believe The Filmmaker Shares That Emotion. They Just Think The Audience Will. And I Think You Can Feel That Separation. So Any Time I Find Myself Writing Something That I Don't Really Respond To, But I'm Telling Myself, 'oh Yes, But The Audience Is Going To Like This,' Then I Know I'm On The Wrong Track And I Just Throw It Out.