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 Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

All religions have always hated females.

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.