You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.