The

The I come into contact with a lot of young people, and I found that a lot of these people

know all my movies really, even better than I do.

And they know all of Marty's films, and they know all of Brian De Palma's films even better than I do. And they know all Marty's films,

and they know all of Brian De Palma's films and George Lucas's films, and they're getting

to know all of Quentin Tarantino's films. But what's happening is they don't know much beyond

that. And when I say, what are your favorite films from the old days, from the black and white

days of the 30s and 40s? I don't get a lot of answers that give me comfort.

And I'm finding that if people are going to just study the movie brats of the 1970s, you know, what they're learning is a pretty weak carbon copy because all the movie brats learn from the masters of the 40s and 50s and 30s and I'm sure those in the 50s and 40s

learned from the silent movie masters.

And so we're all handing influences down and inspiring from generation generation.

And I kind of am a little bit sad that a lot of the young people today kind of have a cutoff

point for their own personal influences and that's like they don't know a lot of pictures in people today kind of have a cutoff point for their own personal influences

and that's like they don't know a lot of pictures in the pre-60s.

To me this is the first stage.

Now the reason for it is this.

It is to urge one, to drive one, to make one work purely in the visual,

and not rely upon words at all.

Because I'm still a purist,

and I do believe that film,

being the newest art of the 20th century,

is a series of images projected on a screen,

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