When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.
When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it
We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them.
Film is a battleground.
If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!
I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan that defines what kind of drama it is.