There Are Few Things More Fundamentally Encouraging

From The Very Beginning, All Of My Films Have Divided The Critics. Some Have Thought Them Wonderful, And Others Have Found Very Little Good To Say. But Subsequent Critical Opinion Has Always Resulted In A Very Remarkable Shift To The Favorable. In One Instance, The Same Critic Who Originally Rapped The Film Has Several Years Later Put It On An All-time Best List. But Of Course, The Lasting And Ultimately Most Important Reputation Of A Film Is Not Based On Reviews, But On What, If Anything, People Say About It Over The Years, And On How Much Affection For It They Have.

It's Crazy How You Can Get Yourself In A Mess Sometimes And Not Even Be Able To Think About It With Any Sense And Yet Not Be Able To Think About Anything Else.

I Love Editing. I Think I Like It More Than Any Other Phase Of Film Making. If I Wanted To Be Frivolous, I Might Say That Everything That Precedes Editing Is Merely A Way Of Producing Film To Edit.

A Film Is - Or Should Be - More Like Music Than Like Fiction. It Should Be A Progression Of Moods And Feelings. The Theme, What's Behind The Emotion, The Meaning, All That Comes Later.

Have You Ever Had A Single Moment's Thought About My Responsibilities?