I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.
The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
The essence of cinema is editing.
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.