We Don't Take The Time

I’m Very Worried About The Depiction Of Women On The Screen. It’s Gotten Worse Than Ever And It’s Related To Their Being Either High- Or Low-class Concubines, And The Only Question Is When Or Where They Will Go To Bed, With Whom, And How Many. There’s Nothing To Do With The Dreams Of Women, Or Of Woman As The Dream, Nothing To Do With The Quirky Part Of Her, The Wonder Of Her.

Films Today Show Only A Dream World And Have Lost Touch With The Way People Really Are... In This Country, People Die At 21. They Die Emotionally At 21, Maybe Younger... My Responsibility As An Artist Is To Help People Get Past 21... The Films Are A Roadmap Through Emotional And Intellectual Terrain That Provides A Solution On How To Save Pain.

Film Is, To Me, Just Unimportant. But People Are Very Important.

My Films Are Expressive Of A Culture That Has Had The Possibility Of Attaining Material Fulfillment While At The Same Time Finding Itself Unable To Accomplish The Simple Business Of Conducting Human Lives. We Have Been Sold A Bill Of Goods As A Substitute For Life. What Is Needed Is Reassurance In Human Emotions; A Re-evaluation Of Our Emotional Capacities.

As An Artist, I Feel That We Must Try Many Things - But Above All We Must Dare To Fail...say What You Are. Not What You Would Like To Be. Not What You Have To Be. Just Say What You Are. And What You Are Is Good Enough.