 Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language. |
| I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him. |
| I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce. |
| I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired. |
| 'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them. |
| A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it. |
| You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics. |
| Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage. |
| Most artists think they're frauds anyway. |
| You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually. |
| I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry. |
| There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave. |
| I've always had trouble with authority. |
| Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. |
| No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not. |
| I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden. |
| A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization. |
| Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills. |
| Yeah, there's absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks - I don't even think it made that. |
| Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker. |
