Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.

I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.