"I'm fascinated by the movies simply because it is an enormous machine for making money and no matter how badly they r…"

"There is only one thing that can kill the movies, and that is education."

"Of course, print will continue to be used, and it is interesting to speculate what kinds of reading matter would surv…"

"As you see [filmmaking] makes me into a clown. And that happens to everyone – just look at Orson Welles or look at ev…"

"Photography and cinema contributed in large part to the secularization of history, to fixing it in its visible, "obje…"

"As one industry insider argued, "Saving Private Ryan suffers on [video] cassette. If you see it at home, you are by n…"

"Sometimes watching a movie is a bit like getting raped."

"Film is not the art of scholars, but illiterates."

"If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!"

"From the 1960s, cinema was one of the most important aspects of the alliances between Cuba, the USSR and African libe…"