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 can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80..

All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run….

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….

That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage..

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most pe….

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the trut….

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..

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teachin….

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositio….

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….

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….

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure..

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….

American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse..

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..

The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the com….

Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollut….

As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a ….

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their ….