Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

Continuity is boring.

I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.

I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby - but just me. Nobody else.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.