I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.

I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

How does anybody ever think of anything?

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.