“I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded. ”

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

“I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the sp...”

“Jns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!”

“One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)”

“Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importan...”

“Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's l...”

“Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.”

“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.”

“A chair can be more valuable in memories than, say, a precious gem. A gem could have no stories to share; no lives altered or changed in the slightest. It could remain buried beneath the earth for ...”

“There is something much better than sitting on an empty chair and that is to watch it and to let it to inspire you to think deeply!”

“She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?”

“God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?""No," I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check.”

“Standing in the shower, I feel something on the back of my leg that turns out to be my ass.”

“Standing in the shower, I feel something on the back of my leg that turns out to be my ass.”