A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.
I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.
I don't work with people who ask me questions.
It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.
Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.
I'm a very early riser, and so I like to get up and try hard to write before the day even really gets started. Just me and a pot of coffee -I find I can get a lot done that way.
In 1981, I think, for the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf. Before that I designed a mirror room for Kasper König's Westkunst show, but it was never built. All that exists is the design - four mirrors for one room.
The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.
Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.