I Never Read Karl Marx.

American Pictures Usually Have No Subject, Only A Story. A Pretty Woman Is Not A Subject. Julia Roberts Doing This And That Is Not A Subject.

You Have To Continue And Discover The Grammar Of Things, Of What We Can See.

Movies In Hollywood Now, For The Past 20 Or 30 Years, Are Made Mainly By Lawyers Or Agents.

I Like The Idea Of Making Films About Ostensibly Absolutely Nothing. I Like The Irrelevant, The Tangential, The Sidebar Excursion To Nowhere That Suddenly Becomes Revelatory. That's What All My Movies Are About. That And The Idea That We're In Possession Of Certainty, Truth, Infallible Knowledge, When Actually We're Just A Bunch Of Apes Running Around. My Films Are About People Who Think They're Connected To Something, Although They're Really Not.

I Write And Film History; I Don't Make It.