“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
“For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance.”
“[on Springsteen's "Stolen Car":] A kind of mystical film noir, written by Kafka and shot by Polanski.”
“It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.”
“Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It’s another part of the twentieth-century mind. It’s the world seen from inside. We’ve come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself.”
“I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.”