What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.
I might have got somewhere with 'The Ladykillers,' but forty minutes were cut. A lot of me was cut with that forty minutes.
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.
I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.
An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.
I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.
Like a bathroom singer, I am a closet artist, but you need time to paint.
I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.
