“Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.”
“He grinned, a very dark and evil grin… the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas.”
“You must make the agony of deciding so intense that you can only escape by thinking.”
“Excruciating agony makes me cranky.”
“The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.”