A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.

Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone.

The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence.

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.