Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.