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Hollywood Films Have Become A Cesspool Of Formula And It's Up To Us To Try To Change It... I Feel Like A Preacher! But It's Really True. I Feel Personally Responsible For The Future Of American Cinema. Me Personally.

A Lot Of Documentaries Have Been Made Very Quickly, But I Think They're Like Frogs In An Ecosystem: They're Harbingers. Film Is Always Two Or Three Years Behind, Because It Takes So Long To Write A Script, Get Financing, And Get It Made. It Just Takes A While. But I Think It's Coming. It Has To.

The Better A Novel Is, In Literary Terms, The More You Can't Be Faithful. The Novel Succeeds On Terms Exclusive To Literature. A Good Film Succeeds On Terms Exclusive To The Cinema. That's Why So Many Bad Novels Can Become Good Movies.

The Actors Are The Greatest Executors Of Tone In A Film. They're The Most Important Cinematic Component.

I Like To Think Of Film-making Not Just As An Act Of Personal Self-aggrandisement But Rather As An Act Of Public Service.