A Film Needs More Than

The Whole Idea Of God Is Absurd. If Anything, '2001' Shows That What Some People Call 'god' Is Simply An Acceptable Term For Their Ignorance. What They Don't Understand, They Call 'god' -stanley Kubrick, Interview, 1963

I Have Always Enjoyed Dealing With A Slightly Surrealistic Situation And Presenting It In A Realistic Manner. I've Always Liked Fairy Tales And Myths, Magical Stories. I Think They Are Somehow Closer To The Sense Of Reality One Feels Today Than The Equally Stylized 'realistic' Story In Which A Great Deal Of Selectivity And Omission Has To Occur In Order To Preserve Its 'realist' Style.

The Reality Of The Final Moment, Just Before Shooting [the Scene], Is So Powerful That All Previous Analysis Must Yield Before The Impressions You Receive Under These Circumstances, And Unless You Use This Feedback To Your Positive Advantage, Unless You Adjust To It, Adapt To It And Accept The Sometimes Terrifying Weaknesses It Can Expose, You Can Never Realize The Most Out Of Your Film.

The Feel Of The Experience Is The Important Thing, Not The Ability To Verbalize Or Analyze It.

Know What It Is The Emotional Statement To Convey, And Use Taste And Judgement To Help The Actors Give Their Best Possible Performance.