Occupation: Film Director Birth: April 5, 1942
Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollut….
Works of art are never finished, just stopped..
We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality..
The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it - and I do - and subtle - beige, pink, white, tan, taup..
Investigation is never complete..
As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a ….
Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too..
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….
I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author..
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….
Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers..
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself..
Itch to read, scratch to understand..
I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their ….
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….
If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?.
If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?.
I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience ….
I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think ….
The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the com….
What do you want art to give you? What do you want cultural experience to give you? Shouldn't it be in-depth, profound experiences which have some sa….