Know What It Is The Emotional Statement

I Don't Think That Writers Or Painters Or Filmmakers Function Because They Have Something They Particularly Want To Say. They Have Something That They Feel. And They Like The Art Form; They Like Words, Or The Smell Of Paint, Or Celluloid And Photographic Images And Working With Actors. I Don't Think That Any Genuine Artist Has Ever Been Oriented By Some Didactic Point Of View, Even If He Thought He Was.

The Most Terrifying Fact About The Universe Not That It Is Hostile But That It Is Indifferent

I Have Always Enjoyed Dealing With A Slightly Surrealistic Situation And Presenting It In A Realistic Manner. I've Always Liked Fairy Tales And Myths, Magical Stories. I Think They Are Somehow Closer To The Sense Of Reality One Feels Today Than The Equally Stylized 'realistic' Story In Which A Great Deal Of Selectivity And Omission Has To Occur In Order To Preserve Its 'realist' Style.

I've Never Laid A Cane On The Back Of A Lord Before, But If You Force Me To I Shall Speedily Become Used To The Practice.

Sanitised Violence In Movies Has Been Accepted For Years. What Seems To Upset Everybody Now Is The Showing Of The Consequences Of Violence.