Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.
A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.
I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.
There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.
I don't know why people don't want to talk about their numbers. I guess in a sense, there's a bit of performer nudity, a bit of ego nudity when you expose your numbers, I guess because someone's are higher or someone's are lower. I've never really talked about the numbers with anyone, so maybe I'm not supposed to.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel.
To cease to think creatively is to cease to live