I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.
I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.
Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.
When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'
You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.
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