The Blink 2

John Huston (Interviewed by Louise Sweeney)
Christian Science Monitor
August 11, 1973

"To me, the perfect film is as though it were unfolding behind your eyes, and your eyes were protecting themselves. So that you were seeing what you wished to see. Film is like thought. It's the closest to thought process of any art....

Look at that lamp across the room.
Now look back at me.
Look back at the lamp.
Now look back at me again.

Do you see what you did?

You blinked.

Those are cuts.

After the first look you know there's no reason to pan continuously from me to the lamp because you know what's in between. Your mind cuts the scene. First you behold the lamp. CUT. Then you behold me."