Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.
From Kenneth Lonergan
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.
It's not a character flaw to become an adult.
I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.
I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.
I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.
I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.
I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.
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