I'm Happy - At Times - Making

How Could We Possibly Appreciate The Mona Lisa If Leonardo Had Written At The Bottom Of The Canvas: 'the Lady Is Smiling Because She Is Hiding A Secret From Her Lover.' This Would Shackle The Viewer To Reality, And I Don't Want This To Happen To 2001.

I Don't Think That Writers Or Painters Or Filmmakers Function Because They Have Something They Particularly Want To Say. They Have Something That They Feel. And They Like The Art Form; They Like Words, Or The Smell Of Paint, Or Celluloid And Photographic Images And Working With Actors. I Don't Think That Any Genuine Artist Has Ever Been Oriented By Some Didactic Point Of View, Even If He Thought He Was.

If You Can Talk Brilliantly About A Problem

[making Movies] You're Not Trying To Capture Reality, You're Trying To Capture A Photograph Of Reality.

Sanitised Violence In Movies Has Been Accepted For Years. What Seems To Upset Everybody Now Is The Showing Of The Consequences Of Violence.