Film

“The screen must be charged with the electricity of tragedy.”

“I took it like a lesson from the old master, who taught me that an animal can move the audience even more strongly than any humans.”

“I can think of nothing else than this wretched art of cinema, which I hate and which, no doubt, I love at the same time.”

“I don't know why I film but I am inhabited by a whole people and I must bear witness to my epoch.”

“This movie is a challenge for me. To be honest, I don’t see it as my march into Hollywood.”

“The only thing that is an appropriate response to what happened, the injustice of it, the waste of it, the tragedy of it, is to make the film.”

“I think the truest answer would be that I make films for the love of it.”

“It’s about examining the events of that particular day, and I believe it is being done in a brutally accurate way.”

“I have been, and still am the outstanding figure in the industry, I, mainly, have been made…the subject of attack by Australasian Films Ltd.”

“I believe in poetic cinema.”

“I don't set out to play real people; what usually motivates me is the quality of the writing.”

“人を楽しませることが仕事だと思って、楽しませようと思って生きているんですけど、自分が楽しむことが、人を楽しませることにつながるんだって、改めて今回の映画で思いました。”

“I never objected to playing James Bond, I just didn't want to do JUST that.”

“Naturally the talkies have revolutionised everything.”

“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”

“He llegado a la conclusión de que quiero ser un testigo de mi tiempo.”

“For me, the essence of cinema is a human face speaking.”

“We were talking about an Orson Welles type of character, bigger than life.”