All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive. And once any system succeeds, it becomes its own worst enemy. The good things we create soon create bad things. So nothing is ever going to be Utopian, and when I ...
I probably am a lazy artist and probably don`t control things as much as some people would like- but that`s my business. And if my style is too loose or improvised for some people`s taste, that`s their problem- totally. The fact is, I`m not the greatest H...
I look at film as closer to a painting or a piece of music; it`s an impression . . . an impression of character and total atmosphere . . . The attempt is to enlist an audience emotionally, not intellectually.
[On Sissy Spacek] She`s remarkable, one of the top actresses I`ve worked with. Her resources are like a deep well.
