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There Is Just As Much Evil In All Of Us As There Is Good. We're All Continuously Guilty, Even If We're Not Doing It Intentionally To Be Evil. Here We Are Sitting In Luxury Hotels, Living It Up On The The Backs Of Others In The Third World. We All Have A Guilty Conscience, But We Do Very Little About It.

Like Every Filmmaker, I Make My Films To Reach The Widest Audience Possible.

Classicism Becomes Avant-garde When Everyone Else Is Doing Their Utmost To Develop New Stylistic Forms. I Think It's Healthy To Return To Classical Forms.

Film Is The Manipulative Medium Par Excellence. When You Think Back On The History Of Film And The 20th Century, You See The Propaganda That's Been Made. So There Are Moral Demands On The Director To Treat The Spectators As Seriously As He Or She Takes Himself And Not To See Them Merely As Victims That Can Be Manipulated To Whatever Ends They Have.

I'm Not Someone Who Enjoys Long Talks, Long Rehearsals. I'm Very Technical: I Tell My Actors, You Come In, You Sit Down, You Pick Up A Coffee, You Look Here, You Say The Line. We Try It With The Cameras Rolling, And If It Doesn't Work, We Adjust It Until It Does. It's Very Simple.