I Think Of Myself As An Amateur

I Always Start With Characters Rather Than With A Plot, Which Many Critics Would Say Is Very Obvious From The Lack Of Plot In My Films - Although I Think They Do Have Plots - But The Plot Is Not Of Primary Importance To Me, The Characters Are.

To Me, Everything Is Endless Variations On Other Things. Like Waves In The Ocean. They Continue To Turn Over On Each Other, And They're All Slightly Different. I Don't Know If Originality Is Possible. Is It Even Necessary? Because Everything Is Different Than What Came Before, But It's All Branches From The Same Tree. Originality Is Overrated, But What You Do With Things Is Always Different.

Film Relates To Almost Every Other Form Of Expression, But Poetry Is A Bit Abstract In Its Strength And Sometimes Even The White Spaces On The Page Are Evocative Almost As Much As Where The Text Is. Certain Poets Have Played With That.

Separate Two Particles, Place Them At Opposite Ends Of The Universe, Produce Some Effect In One, And The Other Will Be Identically Affected.

The Beauty Of A Movie Is That You Walk In, You Don't Know Anything About It, You Enter A World That's New To You, And That's The Magic Of Being Transported.