If Gary Cooper And Henry Fonda Had

If You Really Want To Communicate Something, Even If It’s Just An Emotion Or An Attitude, Let Alone An Idea, The Least Effective And Least Enjoyable Way Is Directly. It Only Goes In About An Inch. But If You Can Get People To The Point Where They Have To Think A Moment What It Is You’re Getting At, And Then Discover It, The Thrill Of Discovery Goes Right Through The Heart.

You're Constantly Changing Man. But The Film's Not Changing. The Film Stays The Same. That's The Beautiful Aspect Of It.

I'm Happy - At Times - Making Films. I'm Certainly Unhappy Not Making Films.

You Either Care Or You Don’t.

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.