Assorted Lucubrations

I have crushes on celebrities or people I meet or see in the coffee shop, and every day I fall in love with three people simply because they said one funny thing or appeared to me in a certain way.

The white fathers told us, I think therefore I am; and the black mothers in each of us—the poet—whispers in our dreams, I feel, therefore I can be free.

Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema— I could not imagine a work of art that would prompt a person to do something bad. There can be no talk of art in relation to films like ‘The Exterminator’. My purpose as far as possible is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness — and I don’t mean the sort of tears that ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ produces. Perhaps you have noticed that the more pointless people’s tears during a film, the more profound the reason for those tears. I am not talking about sentimentality, but about how art can reach to the depths of the human soul and leave man defenseless against good.

If you consider a woman less pure after you’ve touched her, maybe you should take a look at your hands.