Things I’ve Learned as a MovieMaker

By James Toback
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/things_ive_learned_as_a_moviemaker_2756/
LA is ironically and paradoxically a dangerous place to be if you make movies. Because it's almost impossible to keep a sense of film as a representation of life and to get connected to what's going on outside. In other words, if you're going to make films about making films, that's a good idea for a film. But to continue in a career in which it's all self-reference and self-quotation or quotation from friends or enemies, it's such a distortion of what film can and should be.