Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.