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 ….

Continuity is boring..

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are..

Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words..

I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal..

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're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end..

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….

Cinema is dead, long live cinema..

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….

It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the man….

My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's..

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward..

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone..

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of….

A hand cannot write on itself..

The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it - and I do - and subtle - beige, pink, white, tan, taup..

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which enterta….

I was continually connected with the whole world and never got any rest. At the moment, I spend only a few hours weekly on the net, that's just bette….

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text..