Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

Cinema has reached a dead end.

I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.

We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.

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

If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?