No Matter How Many Times

I Really Subscribe To That Old Adage That You Should Never Let The Audience Get Ahead Of You For A Second. So If The Film's Abrasive And Wrongfoots People Then, Y'know, That's Great. But I Hope It Involves An Audience.

Crazy Is So Hard To Play, There's Nothing You Can Really Tell An Actor.

It's So Hard To Do Anything That Doesn't Owe Some Kind Of Debt To What Stanley Kubrick Did With Music In Movies. Inevitably, You're Going To End Up Doing Something That He's Probably Already Done Before. It Always Seem Like We're Falling Behind Whatever He Came Up With. "singin' In The Rain" (1952) In "a Clockwork Orange" (1971) - That Was The First Time I Became So Aware Of Music In Movies. So No Matter How Hard You Try To Do Something New, You're Always Following Behind.

Screenwriting Is Like Ironing. You Move Forward A Little Bit And Go Back And Smooth Things Out.

My Filmmaking Education Consisted Of Finding Out What Filmmakers I Liked Were Watching, Then Seeing Those Films. I Learned The Technical Stuff From Books And Magazines, And With The New Technology You Can Watch Entire Movies Accompanied By Audio Commentary From The Director. You Can Learn More From John Sturges' Audio Track On The 'bad Day At Black Rock' Laserdisc Than You Can In 20 Years Of Film School. Film School Is A Complete Con, Because The Information Is There If You Want It.