If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.
In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use that phrase, is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
Art is not a mirror but a hammer.
We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form
I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.
The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.
The boyfriend of the student music teacher came in: "Hey, kids, this is a real Air Force pilot. " I asked him something to the effect of how it felt to be dropping bombs on children in Vietnamese villages. And it got very icy in there all of a sudden, and finally the teacher said, "Oh, well, Eric reads a lot of newspapers. Next question. "
I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.
One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it's going to, we can just relax and do it. Unfortunately, in my experience, that's not the way it works. The story doesn't want to be told what to do. You have to enter into this process with a high level of trust that the many hours of choosing that you're doing every day will gradually clarify the narrative for you. And that's what happens.