A Film Is - Or Should Be

I Love Editing. I Think I Like It More Than Any Other Phase Of Film Making. If I Wanted To Be Frivolous, I Might Say That Everything That Precedes Editing Is Merely A Way Of Producing Film To Edit.

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.

Any Time You Take A Chance You Better Be Sure The Rewards Are Worth The Risk Because They Can Put You Away Just As Fast For A Ten Dollar Heist As They Can For A Million Dollar Job.

Never Say No To An Idea - You Never Know How That Idea Will Ignite Another Idea.

In His Essay On The Uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud Said That The Uncanny Is The Only Feeling Which Is More Powerfully Experienced In Art Than In Life. If The Horror Genre Required Any Justification, I Should Think This Alone Would Serve As Its Credentials.