“Whether you're Godard or Almodovar or Scorsese, it's text, text, text....” — Peter Greenaway Quote

Whether you're Godard or Almodovar or Scorsese, it's text, text, text. Everything begins with the text, and this is a source of great anguish to me. So please let cinema get on with doing what it does best, which is expressing ideas in visual terms.

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

What 'Transparent' actually is if you give it a chance is a compelling, intoxicating look at family, siblings, secrets, divorce, being Jewish, mid-life anguish and 'paradise syndrome' malaise.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.