The future of American film lies on television.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.