These days more films are going to people than people are going to films,

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.