Words are a completely different form of expression. The word P-E-N-I-S is an entirely different form of communication than a photograph of the same thing. H

Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.