Everybody Who Works Under Any System Feels

Man's Greatest Advances Are Weapon Advances. Culture Follows From Weaponry, We Are Militant Like The Animals And Birds - Defending Our Homes. No Matter How Far Back You Go In History, Along With The Struggle For Existence, Along With The Survival Necessities - Kill Or Be Killed, Eat Or Be Eaten - There Is A Hunger For Something Spiritual. He Invents God, Prayers, Incantations To Something Above Him. Why? This Is Not Brought Out - This Is Not Weapon Culture.

Most Of Ideologies Are Not Based On The Individual - No Matter What They Say. There Are These Peoples' Democracies, Nationalism - They're All Dictatorships. And I Think Any Kind Of Dictatorship Is Bad For The Individual.

The Best Pictures Are Yet To Be Made.

If The Audience Gets Everything, If They See The Photography And Notice That It Is Good, Then The Story Goes Out The Window, But If You Become Involved With The Lives Of The Actors And Forget That You Are Seeing Mechanical Devices On A Huge Screen - Forget The Make-believe - This Is The Job Of The Director To Involve The Audience With The Actors.

War To Me Is The Stupidest Way Of Settling Anything. The Whole Damn Thing Goes To Pieces.