The Whole Idea Of God Is Absurd.

How Does Anybody Ever Think Of Anything?

The Test Of A Work Of Art Is, In The End, Our Affection For It, Not Our Ability To Explain Why It Is Good.

Sanitised Violence In Movies Has Been Accepted For Years. What Seems To Upset Everybody Now Is The Showing Of The Consequences Of Violence.

I Haven't Come Across Any Recent New Ideas In Film That Strike Me As Being Particularly Important And That Have To Do With Form. I Think That A Preoccupation With Originality Of Form Is More Or Less A Fruitless Thing. A Truly Original Person With A Truly Original Mind Will Not Be Able To Function In The Old Form And Will Simply Do Something Different. Others Had Much Better Think Of The Form As Being Some Sort Of Classical Tradition And Try To Work Within It.

One Man Writes A Novel. One Man Writes A Symphony. It Is Essential That One Man Make A Film.