The Best Education In Film Is To

The World's Religions, For All Their Parochialism, Did Supply A Kind Of Consolation For This Great Ache. This Shattering Recognition Of Our Mortality Is At The Root Of Far More Mental Illness Than I Suspect Even Psychiatrists Are Aware.

I've Got A Peculiar Weakness For Criminals And Artists. Neither Takes Life As It Is. Any Tragic Story Has To Be In Conflict With Things As They Are.

If It Can Be Written, Or Thought, It Can Be Filmed.

I Love Editing. I Think I Like It More Than Any Other Phase Of Film Making. If I Wanted To Be Frivolous, I Might Say That Everything That Precedes Editing Is Merely A Way Of Producing Film To Edit.

The Most Terrifying Fact About The Universe Is Not That It Is Hostile But That It Is Indifferent, But If We Can Come To Terms With This Indifference, Then Our Existence As A Species Can Have Genuine Meaning. However Vast The Darkness, We Must Supply Our Own Light.