"I've never had a mad desire to become director, nor have I had to lay siege to a producer to fulfill that desire. Simply, I have become a director. Better yet, I was a director, and I didn't know what it meant or what I had to do. For a long time I was a director without realizing that it was the realization of a childhood dream. (p. 194)"
January 1, 1970
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