Watching A Kubrick Film Is

Basically, You Make Another Movie, And Another, And Hopefully You Feel Good About Every Picture You Make. And You Say, 'my Name Is On That. I Did That. It's Ok.' But Don't Get Me Wrong, I Still Get Excited By It All. That, I Hope, Will Never Disappear.

There's A Way That The Force Of Disappointment Can Be Alchemized Into Something That Will Paradoxically Renew You.

Orson Welles Was A Force Of Nature, Who Just Came In And Wiped The Slate Clean. And Citizen Kane Is The Greatest Risk-taking Of All Time In Film. I Don’t Think Anything Had Even Seen Anything Quite Like It. The Photography Was Also Unlike Anything We’d Seen. The Odd Coldness Of The Filmmaker Towards The Character Reflects His Own Egomania And Power, And Yet A Powerful Empathy For All Of Them--it’s Very Interesting. It Still Holds Up, And It’s Still Shocking. It Takes Storytelling And Throws It Up In The Air.

The Storyboard For Me Is The Way To Visualise The Entire Movie In Advance.

More Than Ninety Percent Of Directing A Picture Is The Right Casting