There Are No Rules In Filmmaking. Only

Any Kind Of Dictatorship, I'm Uneasy. I Just Don't Like Dictators. I Don't Like Crowds. I Don't Like Hordes, And I Don't Like Other People Telling Me What To Do. This Is Probably A Reaction Against People Telling Me What To Do When I Was A Kid. I Won't Join Any Group, Espouse A Cause Against Some Other People.

If The Audience Gets Everything, If They See The Photography And Notice That It Is Good, Then The Story Goes Out The Window, But If You Become Involved With The Lives Of The Actors And Forget That You Are Seeing Mechanical Devices On A Huge Screen - Forget The Make-believe - This Is The Job Of The Director To Involve The Audience With The Actors.

No Saint, No Pope, No General, No Sultan, Has Ever Had The Power That A Filmmaker Has; The Power To Talk To Hundreds Of Millions Of People For Two Hours In The Dark.

Things Own You. That's The Trouble With Capitalism. Things Own You. With Communism And Fascism - Ideas Own You. One Idea And You Can't Have Any Other.

Friend, You Are A Divine Mingle-mangle Of Guts And Stardust. So Hang In There! If Doors Opened For Me, They Can Open For Anyone.