My Advice To Young Filmmakers Is This:

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.

In These Days Of Wars And Rumors Of Wars - Haven't You Ever Dreamed Of A Place Where There Was Peace And Security, Where Living Was Not A Struggle But A Lasting Delight?

Man Must Be Able To Recover, To Win Out, Triumph Over Adversity. And I Don't Mean Just The Little Adversity Like Paying His Room Rent Or Something. But Those Deep, Deep Human Adversities Because Something He Has Faith In Has Turned To Ashes. Where Someone He Loves Turns Out To Be Just Another Joke. You Get To The Point Of Suicide. But You Can Bounce Back - They Can't Completely Destroy You.

I Think Of The Medium As A People-to-people Medium, Not Cameraman-to-people, Not Direction-to-people, Not Writers-to-people, But People-to-peopleyou Can Only Involve An Audience With People. You Can't Involve Them With Gimmicks, With Sunsets, With Hand-held Cameras, Zoom Shots, Or Anything Else. They Couldn't Care Less About Those Things. But You Give Them Something To Worry About, Some Person They Can Worry About, And Care About, And You've Got Them, You've Got Them Involved.

When You Get To Political Machines That Can Control A State, Then You're Really Into Organized Crime - Almost. You're Fighting A Political Mafia.