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Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them.

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh, I bought some literature.' No, you say, 'I bought a novel' by so-and-so, or a book of essays by so-and-so.

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.