Cinema has reached a dead end..

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else..

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper..

Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas seem to ….

I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis..

I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. C….

My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mist….

There are many photos of Eisenstein. I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. Being a virgin at 33 is strange now, but let's not be too….

I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone..

I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal..

English culture is highly literary-based..

Investigation is never complete..

Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extra….

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information..

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein..

I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in the end - a plump 19th century type, ….

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….

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story..

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian..

The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and cr….

I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life..