Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.

Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has far more exciting adventures, and certainly a lot of them sexual, than ever I've experienced. But in a sense, what you do with an alter ego, you give them all sorts of permissions and licences which you know you'll never be able to embrace in your real life.

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

Cinema is dead, long live cinema.

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

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.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.