Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other’s murder.
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.
If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
I prefer to be alive, so I’m cautious about taking risks.
The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.