Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.

People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.