All religions have always hated females..

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker..

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting..

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. It's always at the back of my mind - let's give up this silly bu….

Blind eyes cannot read..

We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy my films and the fact that I c….

Too many proofs spoil the truth..

There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film -- certainly the….

A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath..

I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of ever….

There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for….

It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied b….

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them..

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….

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….

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….

It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting..

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible..

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….

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….

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….