Mark Langer's fascinating reply to the question about the girl and the gun really makes me want to ask this question: WHEN WE ARE FACED WITH A QUESTION like, "Who said this: 'All I need to make a movie is a girl and a gun'?," HOW do we go about trying to frame an answer. We've heard Jean-Luc Godard, Abraham Zapruder, Howard Hawks. But not Nicole Garcia, Jane Campion, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Mann. If I asked *this* question, I wonder what kinds of speculations would come about---note please: this is all about speculation, since presumably we don't *know* the answer:---- "Who said this: 'All you can say about movies could be written on the back of a band-aid.'" (Murray, Toronto) ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu