Occupation: Film Director Birth: April 5, 1942
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story..
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….
I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, th….
I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal..
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….
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, ….
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options..
If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker..
Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward..
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….
All religions have always hated females..
There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his characters. Nor is he necessarily to….
I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes..