The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

You start selling the movie before you make it.

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.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.