How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
“It’s a ridiculous notion that films should be made to succeed right away, that if they don’t succeed right away they will never succeed. Films are like houses that withstand time magnificently — if they are well constructed.”