“The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.”
“The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.”
“The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.”
“A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.”
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