An Overnight Success Is Ten Years In

Fix Your Eyes Forward On What You Can Do, Not Back On What You Cannot Change.

The Most Wounding Insult To An Educated Russian Was To Be Called Nekulturny-uncultured-yet The Same Men Who Sat In The Gilt Boxes At The Moscow State Opera Weeping At The End Of A Performance Of Boris Gudunov Could Immediately Turn Around And Order The Execution Or Imprisonment Of A Hundred Men Without Blinking. A Strange People, Made More Strange By Their Political Philosophy.

I Do Not Over-intellectualise The Production Process. I Try To Keep It Simple: Tell The Damned Story.

Civilians Listened To Officers, Which Said A Lot About The Intelligence Of Civilians.

America Is The Most Inventive Country In The World. Why? Because Everybody Has Access To Information. In The Soviet Union It Was Illegal To Take A Photograph Of A Train Station. Look What Happened To Them.