It's A Mistake To Confuse Pity With

A Film Is - Or Should Be - More Like Music Than Like Fiction.

From The Very Beginning, All Of My Films Have Divided The Critics. Some Have Thought Them Wonderful, And Others Have Found Very Little Good To Say. But Subsequent Critical Opinion Has Always Resulted In A Very Remarkable Shift To The Favorable. In One Instance, The Same Critic Who Originally Rapped The Film Has Several Years Later Put It On An All-time Best List. But Of Course, The Lasting And Ultimately Most Important Reputation Of A Film Is Not Based On Reviews, But On What, If Anything, People Say About It Over The Years, And On How Much Affection For It They Have.

God Has A Hard-on For A Marine Because We Kill Everything We See. He Plays His Game, We Play Ours.

I'm A Slave To My Imagination In Terms Of Making Narrative Films.

No Philosophy Based On An Incorrect View Of The Nature Of Man Is Likely To Produce Social Good.