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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.

Watching films in a cinema is in many ways like going to school. You sit where you're told, surrounded by others, all of you there for a common purpose. You're not allowed to talk, just listen quietly. You might not believe what you see and hear, but only a troublemaker would question it out loud. The only difference is you can walk out - but you're immediately conspicuous if you do so, and people give you dirty looks if you make any noise.

Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater; those that employ the resources of cinematography.

They're either at your throat or they're at your feet.

They are stupid, dirty, do not work hard enough and are content with their little cinema shows.

There is a kind of franchising of movies going on right now, in which the big studio product is like fast food: bad for you, but available on every corner. Good and challenging movies are limited to release in big cities and in a handful of independently booked cinemas. Whole states and sections of the country never see the best new films on big screens, and they're not always easy to find on video.

The movies are so rarely great art, that if we can't appreciate great trash, there is little reason for us to go.

given over to the project of 'not letting people think.'

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.

The director is simply the audience. . . . His job is to preside over accidents.