I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new energy are lacking. They are flowing above all into the television technologies. We must, therefore, concentrate on the CD-ROM.

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

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.

We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.

Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances where many different perspectives could be brought to bear on a series of phenomena associated with the topics under consideration. Yet all the time it was a subjective creation under the auspices of light and sound, dealing with a large slice of cinema's vocabulary.

Cinema is dead, long live cinema.

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.