God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. |
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. |
I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters. |
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it. |
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? |
If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses. |
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. |
It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman. |
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. |
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. |
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite. |
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. |
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream. |
THe artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. |
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed? |