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.

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.

I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.