The foreign directors are always fumbling about in obscurity, and the critics are always writing about the juxtaposition of black and white and the existential dilemma and all that shit, to disguise the fact that they don't understand the first damn thing about it either.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
Men are now beginning their careers as directors by working on commercials — which, if one cares to speculate on it, may be almost a one-sentence résumé of the future of American motion pictures.
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.
[As the clones fight the droids]