You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

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

I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change.

To be immortal and then die