I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

Making a movie is casting a spell.

If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.

Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.

I've made several films that haven't been shown.

Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

All the world's a stage.

Ideas were found by the freethinker, expressed by poet with the new words, formulated by scholar into knowledge.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.

Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.

The world is full of contradiction.

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.

I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical, cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.