The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.
My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.
I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how similar problems are resolved in other forms. The issues in all forms are the same in an abstract sense, aren't they? Characterization, abstraction, metaphor, passage of time. . . Whether it's a movie, a novel, a play, or a poem, those issues exist. And each person resolves them differently.
I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.
Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.
I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH. " I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.
The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.
[Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote.
That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.