I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set. But a few seconds' thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.