In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

Discouragement leads away from the right path, and accomplishes the devil’s desire for destruction

My words are within the rimBut No rim can bind my Thought.

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

Animals have two vital functions in today's society; to be delicious and to fit well.

Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

A lot of times, you beat a person who beat a person who can beat you. I mean, it doesn't make any sense.

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.