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" For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start. "
Me
Along
Beginning
" I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do. "
Working
Done
People
" I'm interested in all the new ideas, such as 3-D and widescreen, but I don't believe the technical method of presentation is the real important thing. "
New
Ideas
Believe
" In most Westerns, you know, people are shooting off guns all the time until you don't even notice it anymore. "
Know
You
Time
" I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible. "
Possible
See
Work
" I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others. "
Arrogance
Yourself
You
" I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal. "
Something
Turned
Say
" It's like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to handle all the vast paraphernalia of moviemaking. You need another, more sensitive head to get the delicate human emotional values you are trying to put on film. "
You
Traffic
Time
" I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved them and held them quietly... When the audience was truly moved, it was absolutely quiet. They were in a communion because they were learning the truth about themselves. "
Communion
Learning
Play
" I was on a picture for four or five days, had an opportunity to be on a set, and the assistant cameraman kept showing me things. One day I climbed the fence, knowing they needed an assistant cameraman. A couple of days later, I was one. The first day or two, it was pretty disastrous, but I knew something about photography, and I caught on quick. "
Fence
Picture
Opportunity
" Nothing is more pleasant for me than to be on location in the country that I love, in any of our western landscapes, being out there with a camp outfit and a film company. "
Nothing
Outfit
Me
" Only the picture matters. It's what goes on the screen that counts. "
Only
Picture
Counts
" The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience. "
Remember
Film
Audience
" The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument. "
Instrument
Always
People
" Three takes. You're either going to get it, or you're not going to get it. There's no use persisting; it just had to work that way. "
Way
Work
Three
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