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It's Impossible To Tell You What I'm Going To Do Except To Say That I Expect To Make The Best Movie Ever Made.

Everything Has Already Been Done. Every Story Has Been Told Every Scene Has Been Shot. It’s Our Job To Do It One Better.

The Reality Of The Final Moment, Just Before Shooting [the Scene], Is So Powerful That All Previous Analysis Must Yield Before The Impressions You Receive Under These Circumstances, And Unless You Use This Feedback To Your Positive Advantage, Unless You Adjust To It, Adapt To It And Accept The Sometimes Terrifying Weaknesses It Can Expose, You Can Never Realize The Most Out Of Your Film.

The Most Terrifying Fact About The Universe Not That It Is Hostile But That It Is Indifferent

Perhaps It Sounds Ridiculous, But The Best Thing That Young Filmmakers Should Do Is To Get Hold Of A Camera And Some Film And Make A Movie Of Any Kind At All.