[after directing The French Connection (1971)] Each picture I`ve done so far has been for different reasons. The Birthday Party (1968), for instance, was purely a labor of love. I wanted to do [Harold Pinter]. Others were to advance my career, to get bett...
There`s a kind of desperation to the characters I`m interested in. They`re all in extremely heightened states in a heightened situation. And in the course of my films, we`re exploring all of their fears -- the rational and the irrational.
The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that`s what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That`s what is original to you.
[after directing The French Connection (1971)] Each picture I`ve done so far has been for different reasons. The Birthday Party (1968), for instance, was purely a labor of love. I wanted to do [Harold Pinter]. Others were to advance my career, to get bett...
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