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The Best Way To Make Friends With An Audience Is To Make Them Laugh. You Don't Get People To Laugh Unless They Surrender - Surrender Their Defenses, Their Hostilities. And Once You Make An Audience Laugh, They're With You. And They Listen To You If You've Got Something To Say. I Have A Theory That If You Can Make Them Laugh, They're Your Friends.

Do Not Help The Quick Moneymakers Who Have Delusions About Taking Possession Of Classics By Smearing Them With Paint.

Man's Greatest Advances Are Weapon Advances. Culture Follows From Weaponry, We Are Militant Like The Animals And Birds - Defending Our Homes. No Matter How Far Back You Go In History, Along With The Struggle For Existence, Along With The Survival Necessities - Kill Or Be Killed, Eat Or Be Eaten - There Is A Hunger For Something Spiritual. He Invents God, Prayers, Incantations To Something Above Him. Why? This Is Not Brought Out - This Is Not Weapon Culture.

If The Audience Gets Everything, If They See The Photography And Notice That It Is Good, Then The Story Goes Out The Window, But If You Become Involved With The Lives Of The Actors And Forget That You Are Seeing Mechanical Devices On A Huge Screen - Forget The Make-believe - This Is The Job Of The Director To Involve The Audience With The Actors.

Film Is A Disease. When It Infects Your Bloodstream, It Takes Over As The Number One Hormone; It Bosses The Enzymes; Directs The Pineal Gland; Plays Iago To Your Psyche. As With Heroin, The Antidote To Film Is More Film.