There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.

I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.

Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.