I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.Collection: Fear
You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.
It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out.
I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.
Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.
There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.Collection: Heart
I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.Collection: Regret
You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.Collection: Heart