There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.