The Test Of A Work Of Art

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

The Screen Is A Magic Medium.

Be Suspicious Of People Who Have, Or Crave, Power. Never, Ever Go Near Power. Don't Become Friends With Anyone Who Has Real Power. It's Dangerous.

If You Can Talk Brilliantly About A Problem, It Can Create The Consoling Illusion That It Has Been Mastered.

I Haven't Come Across Any Recent New Ideas In Film That Strike Me As Being Particularly Important And That Have To Do With Form. I Think That A Preoccupation With Originality Of Form Is More Or Less A Fruitless Thing. A Truly Original Person With A Truly Original Mind Will Not Be Able To Function In The Old Form And Will Simply Do Something Different. Others Had Much Better Think Of The Form As Being Some Sort Of Classical Tradition And Try To Work Within It.