Every Decent Director Has Only One Subject,

The More Real Things Get, The More Like Myths They Become. There Have Always Been Myths, But The Myths Of Earlier Times Were, Im Convinced, Bad Ones, Because They Made People Sick. So Certainly, If We Can Tell Evil Stories To Make People Sick, We Can Also Tell Good Myths That Make Them Well.

Every Decent Director Has Only One Subject, And Finally Only Makes The Same Film Over And Over Again. My Subject Is The Exploitability Of Feelings, Whoever Might Be The One Exploiting Them. It Never Ends. It's A Permanent Theme. Whether The State Exploits Patriotism, Or Whether In A Couple Relationship, One Partner Destroys The Other.

So Certainly, If We Can Tell Evil Stories To Make People Sick, We Can Also Tell Good Myths That Make Them Well.

Love Is The Best, Most Insidious, Most Effective Instrument Of Social Repression.

People Often Criticize My Films For Being Pessimistic; There Are Certainly Many Reasons For Being Pessimistic But I Don’t See My Films That Way. They’re Founded In The Belief That Revolution Doesn’t Belong On The Cinema Screen But Outside In The World. Never Mind If A Film Ends Pessimistically But Exposes Certain Mechanisms Clearly Enough To Show People How They Work And The Ultimate Effect Is Not Pessimistic. My Goal Is To Reveal Such Mechanisms In A Way That Makes People Realize The Necessity Of Changing Their Own Reality.