Anybody who’s working in pictures, I don’t care whether you say it out loud or not, wants to be a director. The actors all think, ‘When I’m washed up in this, I can be a director.’ The writer says, ‘If I write a good script, I’ll direct it myself.’
Anybody who’s working in pictures, I don’t care whether you say it out loud or not, wants to be a director. The actors all think, ‘When I’m washed up in this, I can be a director.’ The writer says, ‘If I write a good script, I’ll direct it myself.’
“Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh. I don’t think there’s any consecutive moral philosophy in fiction beyond excellence. Acuteness of feeling and velocity have always seemed to me terribly important. People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.”
John Cheever