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.

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

I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

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

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies.

I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.