All Stereotypes Turn Out To Be True.

You Need Language For Thought, And You Need Language To Anticipate Death. There Is No Abstract Thought Without Language And No Anticipation. I Think The Anticipation Of Death Without Language Would Be Impossible.

For Me, The First Fact Of Human Existence Is The Human Body. But If You Embrace The Reality Of The Human Body, You Embrace Mortality, And That Is A Very Difficult Thing For Anything To Do Because The Self-conscious Mind Cannot Imagine Non-existence. It's Impossible To Do.

Many Wonderful, Creative People Have Won Oscars, So If You Win One, You're In Their Company.

Art Forms Of The Past Were Really Considered Elitist. Bach Did Not Compose For The Masses, Neither Did Beethoven. It Was Always For Patrons, Aristocrats, And Royalty. Now We Have A Sort Of Democratic Version Of That, Which Is To Say That The Audience Is So Splintered In Its Interests.

I Have No Rules. For Me, It's A Full, Full Experience To Make A Movie. It Takes A Lot Of Time, And I Want There To Be A Lot Of Stuff In It. You're Looking For Every Shot In The Movie To Have Resonance And Want It To Be Something You Can See A Second Time, And Then I'd Like It To Be Something You Can See 10 Years Later, And It Becomes A Different Movie, Because You're A Different Person. So That Means I Want It To Be Deep, Not In A Pretentious Way, But I Guess I Can Say I Am Pretentious In That I Pretend. I Have Aspirations That The Movie Should Trigger Off A Lot Of Complex Responses.