Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.