I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.

Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

The patchwork nature of the forms are a reflection of sexuality itself.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

You kind of have to have a cynical thing sometimes.

I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness