One important thing to remember...

One important thing to remember about film-making, or about any artistic enterprise, is that it is for the most part problem solving. It's not necessarily ideologically oriented, or shouldn't be. You are confronted with certain problems and you try to devise an appropriate solution - it goes back to what Charles Eames said about measuring people's asses. (...)

[Paul Schrader a Kevin Jackson, Schrader on Schrader & Other Writings, Faber & Faber 1992]