What's This Thing That Gets Between Us

There Was Once A Great Actor Named George C. Scott. He Was On Stage In The Delacourt Theater In Central Park, Where They Do Shakespeare Every Summer, And He Was Playing Shylock In The Merchant Of Venice. At One Point He Took The Robes He Was Wearing And Just Started Flipping Them Up In The Air, Out Of Nowhere. And Later, An Actor Said To Him, "what Was That, George, What Were You Doing?" And He Said, "they Were Sleeping." You're Always Trying To Catch Them.

I Never Saw Myself As A Director. It's Certainly A Second Language But Making Movies For 40 Years, You Pick Stuff Up. However, This Style Of Making Movies, This Documentary Style, Is Easier For Me Because I Gather A Lot Of Material And With An Editor, Write It On Screen. You Try To Write Based On What You Shot.

Francis Ford Coppola Did This Early On. You Tape A Movie, Like A Radio Show, And You Have The Narrator Read All The Stage Directions. And Then You Go Back Like A Few Days Later And Then You Listen To The Movie. And It Sort Of Plays In Your Mind Like A Film, Like A First Rough Cut Of A Movie.

Learning (shakespeare's Plays) ...in School Was A Bit Of A Bore.

I’ve Always Been In The Theater. I’ve Always Gone To It. That’s Been My Way To Cope. Early On In My Career, I Remember Running - Fleeing - To The Theater As A Way Of Coping With All The Meshugaas That Was Going On For Me.