I'm No Longer Dependent On The Movie

One Of The Most Important Tools That A Filmmaker Has Are His/her Notes.

I Was A Pretty Shy, Lonely Kid. I Blossomed About Age 17, When I Went To College.

I Don't Think There's Any Artist Of Any Value Who Doesn't Doubt What They're Doing.

In America, Even The Critics - Which Is A Pity - Tend To Genre-ize Things. They Have A Hard Time When Genres Get Mixed. They Want To Categorize Things. That's Why I Love Wes Anderson's Films And The Coen Brothers, Because You Don't Know What You're Going To Get, And Very Often You Get Something That You Don't Expect And That's Just What A Genre's Not Supposed To Do.

I Landed A Job With Roger Corman. The Job Was To Write The English Dialogue For A Russian Science Fiction Picture. I Didn't Speak Any Russian. He Didn't Care Whether I Could Understand What They Were Saying; He Wanted Me To Make Up Dialogue.