It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Always stay open to surprise.
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.
When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.
The tone of the picture and the atmosphere was in my head and in my blood in a way once I'd decided to make the picture. I had to find my way through that to choose, select, emphasise certain visual elements and sound.