Richard_Ba

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.***Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.***One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.***

...I studied English Literature. I wasn\'t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well." "As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place." "A lot of it is being done in commercials and music videos. I\'ve never done them, but I think that those are forms in which cross-cutting and parallel action are absolutely standard and accepted as a mainstream language. Film-makers like myself enjoy the fruits of that experimentation and absorption by the mainstream. I think people\'s capacity to absorb a fractured mise-en-scene is extraordinary now compared to forty years ago."

What\'s your name, new best friend? (Talking to a man who\'s walked up on stage and handed Kevin a bag of donuts)***Don\'t get me wrong, I love Schindler\'s List, but it\'s not like "Hey, man, let\'s get loaded and watch Schindler\'s List." ***Americans tend to celebrate even the most mediocre or basic accomplishments... It\'s like weddings to me. Why is that a big deal?... Why do you have to have a big shindig where you\'re, like, "Look, we\'re doing it" and everybody applauds and throws shit in your face.

I feel sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it\'s fantastic.***A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said "no."***Basically my wife was immature. I\'d be at home in the bath and she\'d come in and sink my boats.***I\'m not a drinker — my body will not tolerate spirits. I had two Martinis on New Year\'s Eve and I tried to hijack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.***When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.***How could I not have known that there are little things the size of "Planck length" in the universe, which are a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter? Imagine if you dropped one in a dark theater how hard it would be to find.

I\'ve actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.***There\'s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I\'ll get married again.***In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.***...I don\'t like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what\'s even worse, of being quoted exactly.***"One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film."***"Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life."***