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I love spending the afternoon with these women! I never talk. I just sit and listen and smile. They tell me everything! They forget I’m a man! I might as well have a dress on. Then I also read for two years all the women’s pages. Everything is how to be younger. How to stay younger. What is the ans…

In the discussion of A Woman Under the Influence, I quoted Cassavetes as saying, ‘In replacing narrative, you need an idea.’ There are several themes that link the characters and situations in Opening Night. One is the idea of the kind of weariness that settles in on many professionals as they reac…

I get up in the morning and I used to be eighteen. I’m not eighteen anymore and ninety per cent of my active life is finished. I always looked young. And suddenly I’m going to be forty-eight. I look at myself in the mirror sometimes and I tell myself, ‘What is this fucking head? Who would have such…

[...] When you go all the way that way, it isn’t really about making movies anymore. It’s about trying to find yourself, to understand yourself, through a character. Too many actors and directors lie according to fashion. They earn millions of dollars without really knowing why; they listen to advi…

We’re becoming a voyeuristic society. I also think we’re starting to lose faith in the idea that one man and one woman can totally please each other in bed. Sex is becoming something of a community activity; more and more people have to hop into the sack together in order for all of them to achieve…