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" A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it. "
Good
Sit
Think
" A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization. "
Lot
Me
People
" Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language. "
Learning
Create
Language
" Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. "
Egotism
Quality
Good
" Everybody's a filmmaker today. "
Movies
Today
Filmmaker
" Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker. "
Pretentious
Always
More
" I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life. "
Good
Work
Life
" I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden. "
Time
Pretentious
Just
" I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways. "
Some
Kind
Find
" I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce. "
Yes
Divorce
Said
" I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired. "
Loved
Critics
Been
" I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him. "
Enough
Know
You
" I've always been able to survive by writing, though. "
Been
Always
Though
" I've always had trouble with authority. "
Trouble
Always
Authority
" 'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them. "
Out
Win
Something
" Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way. "
Today
Way
Fact
" Most artists think they're frauds anyway. "
Anyway
Frauds
Think
" Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage. "
Good
Strong
Be Strong
" No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not. "
Either
Born
Storyteller
" The filmmakers always have a great level of control. "
Always
Level
Great
" There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave. "
Respect
Today
Back
" Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills. "
Great
Skill
People
" Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too. "
You
Think
Long
" Yeah, there's absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks - I don't even think it made that. "
Remember
Out
Mean
" You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics. "
Find
You
Strange
" You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually. "
You
Know
Judgment
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