I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author..

I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, th….

You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring b….

Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses..

Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too..

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself..

Works of art are never finished, just stopped..

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers..

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's thre….

We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality..

Itch to read, scratch to understand..

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems w….

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'..

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore be….

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past..

We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret..

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature..

Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions….

There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his characters. Nor is he necessarily to….

I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new energy are lacking. They are flowing abov….

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film..