You Know, They Say In France That

Business Is Very Personal. For Me, Everything Is Extremely Personal. With Actors, The Fact That I Write Helps, Because When You Say To An Actor "oh I Want You To Do It A Little Bit More ...," Without Saying What You Want More Of, Then The Actor Doesn't Know What To Do. But If You Can Put Into Words Exactly What You Want, Then The Experience Of Writing Is Helpful With That.

A Real Love Story Has To Finish Bad. That Is What I Think.

There's This Scene In "the Night Of The Hunter" When The Kids Are Downstairs, And You Have The Feeling That They're Both In A Room And At The Same Time It Looks Remote. And You Wonder, How Can You Give The Effect Of Both "inside" And "outside" At The Same Time. And You Realize, By Watching It Many Times, That Around The Scene There's This Black Edging.

I Had This Fantasy That In A Democracy The Government Was The Population. So I Came To America And Got A Big Slap In My Face... Americans Were Not What I Thought. I Thought I Was Going To See Bastards And I Saw Nice People, Very Friendly To Me.

When You Make A Book Or You Make A Movie, It Is Almost Like Hitting On Somebody. It's Not Because You Want To Seduce People That You Will Seduce Them; You Can Hit On Somebody And It Doesn't Work. But When You Hit On Them And It Works, Then It's Really Cool.