Drama Is Real Life With

Film Your Murders Like Love Scenes, And Film Your Love Scenes Like Murders.

In The Old Days Villains Had Moustaches And Kicked The Dog. Audiences Are Smarter Today. They Don't Want Their Villain To Be Thrown At Them With Green Limelight On His Face. They Want An Ordinary Human Being With Failings.

Dialogue Should Simply Be A Sound Among Other Sounds, Just Something That Comes Out Of The Mouths Of People Whose Eyes Tell The Story In Visual Terms.

The Picture's Over. Now I Have To Go And Put It On Film.

There Is Nothing So Good As A Burial At Sea. It Is Simple, Tidy, And Not Very Incriminating.