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Continuity is boring.
Blind eyes cannot read.
Cinema has reached a dead end.
A hand cannot write on itself.
Too many proofs spoil the truth.
Investigation is never complete.
Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
Itch to read, scratch to understand.
All religions have always hated females.
English culture is highly literary-based.
I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.
Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.
Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.
For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.
Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.
I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.
If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.
I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.
We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.
I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.
It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.
Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.
I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.
We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.'
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.
Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.
If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile?
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.