I Still Think Ned Beatty

A Director Is The Ringmaster Of A Circus That's Inventing Itself.

I Think It's Better To Be Overly Ambitious And Fail Than To Be Underambitious And Succeed In A Mundane Way. I Have Been Very Fortunate. I Failed Upward In My Life!

I Had An Older Brother Who Was Very Interested In Literature, So I Had An Early Exposure To Literature, And And Theater. My Father Sometimes Would Work In Musical Comedies.

The Great Hope Is That People Who Wouldn't Normally Make Films Will Be Making Them. Suddenly, One Day Some Little Fat Girl In Ohio Is Going To Be The New Mozart And Make A Beautiful Film With Her Father's Camera And For Once The So Called Professionalism About Movies Will Be Destroyed Forever - And It Will Really Become An Art Form.

I Associate My Motion Picture Career More With Being Unhappy And Scared, Or Being Under The Gun, Than With Anything Pleasant.