I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.
I hate entertainment.
There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emotions can be very entertaining, you know. I try to use them generously in my films.
Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.
By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.
You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.
We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.
People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.
Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.
