How Does Anybody Ever Think

Art Consists Of Reshaping Life But It Does Not Create Life, Nor Cause Life.

It's A Mistake To Confuse Pity With Love.

One Man Writes A Novel. One Man Writes A Symphony. It Is Essential That One Man Make A Film.

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.

Sanitised Violence In Movies Has Been Accepted For Years. What Seems To Upset Everybody Now Is The Showing Of The Consequences Of Violence.