Cinema Is The Most Beautiful Fraud In

One Can Be A Good Critic And A Moral Observer, But One Remains Professionally Detached As A Writer And A Filmmaker.

There Are Two Kinds Of Homeland: One That Is Given Is Like A Negative, And One That You Have To Conquer Is Like The Positive.

I Like The Idea Of Making Films About Ostensibly Absolutely Nothing. I Like The Irrelevant, The Tangential, The Sidebar Excursion To Nowhere That Suddenly Becomes Revelatory. That's What All My Movies Are About. That And The Idea That We're In Possession Of Certainty, Truth, Infallible Knowledge, When Actually We're Just A Bunch Of Apes Running Around. My Films Are About People Who Think They're Connected To Something, Although They're Really Not.

Art Is Not A Reflection Of Reality, It Is The Reality Of A Reflection.

I'm Very Interested In Tennis, But When I Try To Tell Younger Players About [bill] Tilden, They're Not Interested.