Occupation: Film Director Birth: April 5, 1942
Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone..
Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the cause and effect of violent a….
We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse..
For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end..
It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one..
Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances wher….
There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'..
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible..
I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this….
One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and t….
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….
There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow expect cinem….
My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock, rocks, uranium. Pe….
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….
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting..
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?.
My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes..
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper..
A hand cannot write on itself..
That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage..
You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are..