Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.

Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.

Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.

American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.