Occupation: Film Director Birth: April 5, 1942
We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art. We familiarize them and ….
On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more positions to take, no….
I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's so much to exa….
My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's..
An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A Zed and Two Nough….
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ab….
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past..
I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to handle those situati….
To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to….
I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet..
It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up..
I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal..
In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, ….
We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information..
I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942 and 1945 - ev….
I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not ne….
I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too i….
Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses..
I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fo….
If you never lived out your sexuality - it's a great force, and if you try to fight it, what does that create? Energy: positive and negative, self-lo….
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the trut….