As you see [filmmaking] makes me into a clown. And that happens to everyone - just look at Orson Wells or look at even people like Truffaut. They have become clowns.

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

By dint of declaration the so-called Cinema Verite is devoid of verite. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.

If you switch on television it's just ridiculous and its destructive. It kills us. And talk shows will kill us. They kill our language. So we have to declare h…