Occupation: Film Director Birth: April 5, 1942
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions….
Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has far more exciting adventures, and certain….
There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist..
I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80..
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….
What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other art forms, most notably….
I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositio….
I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time ag….
I was born on the 5th April 1942. On Good Friday. Round about crucifixion time. Archbishop Ussher, a man for dates, who calculated that the world beg….
I loved Latin -- the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history -- but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. ...….
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else..
My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious American-Europe….
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….
I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone..
Cinema is dead, long live cinema..
Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't..
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my cinema, although it might of….
Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth..
I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influent….
We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret..
I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does i….