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Always Get To The Set Or The Location Early, So That You Can Be All Alone And Draw Your Inspiration For The Blocking And The Setups In Private And Quiet. In One Sense, It's About Protecting Yourself; In Another Sense, It's About Always Being Open To Surprise, Even From The Set, Because There May Be Some Detail That You Hadn't Noticed. I Think This Is Crucial. There Are Many Pictures That Seem Good In So Many Ways Except One: They Lack A Sense Of Surprise, They've Never Left The Page.

I'm Not A Hollywood Director. I'm An In Spite Of Hollywood Director.

The Creation Of The Island, Or The Impression Of The Island, As It Changes In The Mind Of The Character Also Came In To Play... There Was Another Very Important Collaborator, Rob Legato, On Special Visual Effects. And Then Ultimately There's Thelma Schoonmaker, Who Keeps Me Focused During The Editing Of The Picture.

Film In The 20th Century, It's The American Art Form, Like Jazz.

I'm Very Phobic About Flying, But I'm Also Drawn To It.