Reality Has A Quality Of

Life Should Be Taken Ironically; Otherwise, It Becomes A Tragedy.

We Know That Behind Every Image Revealed There Is Another Image More Faithful To Reality, And In The Back Of That Image There Is Another, And Yet Another Behind The Last One, And So On, Up To The True Image Of That Absolute, Mysterious Reality That No One Will Ever See.

I Began Taking Liberties A Long Time Ago; Now It Is Standard Practice For Most Directors To Ignore The Rules.

There Can Be No Censorship Better Than One's Own Conscience.

All The Characters In My Films Are Fighting These Problems, Needing Freedom, Trying To Find A Way To Cut Themselves Loose, But Failing To Rid Themselves Of Conscience, A Sense Of Sin, The Whole Bag Of Tricks.