Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.