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

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

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

My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.

The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.

Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary disciplines which may be executed in their own right - music, writing, picture making of all kinds, and I often feel that some filmmakers make films with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.